hello I have a string of text with spaces in it and 4 urls in it. Each of the 4 urls changes for each string of text and I want a piece of code which extracts the 3rd url.

I know of the preg_match function but I am unable to get this working.

Please help me, any ideas welcomed dearly

Thanks

Hi silverbullet,

I just wrote some code for you:

PHP Code:

<?php
$sampletext = 'http://us.php.net  other things http://www.webmaster-talk.com/ http://google.com another/piece of#unrelevant text http://muscularbrain.com';
$split = explode(' ',$sampletext);
$counter = 1;

for( $i = 0; $i<sizeof($split); ++$i)
{
    if(substr_count($split[$i],'http://'))
    {
        if($counter == 3) echo $split[$i];
        ++$counter;
    }
}
?>

Note that I assumed that everything starting with "http://" is an URL. You might want to add some exceptions, depending on your string of text.

As far as I know you can't use http:// in your url.

have it read the whole thing, then have it search everything that starts with www.*

then you can count out the third and echo it

oh I guess Trey Walter already made the code. sorry I'm on my iPhone =p