PHP- GET URLS/LINKS FROM A STRING

The following function puts all URLs/links from a string into an array. The function uses the preg_match function, and looks for URLs/links with http/https. Please note, the function does NOT search for hyperlink tags ()- it looks for URL’s.

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function getUrls($string) { $regex = '/https?\:\/\/[^\" ]+/i'; preg_match_all($regex, $string, $matches); return ($matches[0]); }   $urls = getUrls($string);   print_r($urls);