Nah, I'm not sick of regex at all.

All I want to do is something simple.

I want to find all links in the text and replace them with a word.

Say I have a text that reads:

Hello everyone, this site is google: www.google.com and this site is yahoo!: http://yahoo.com.

I rock.

Code (markup):

That should become:

Hello everyone, this site is google: LINK and this site is yahoo!: LINK

I rock.

Code (markup):

I currently have:

preg_replace('~(http://|ftp://|https://|www\.)(.*)~i','LINK',$message)

PHP:

Cheers,

Josh

 

hmm.. the (.*) will match the rest of the message because you didn't say what it should match up to..
try replacing it with (.*? ) this should match to the first space after the url

preg_replace('~(http://|ftp://|https://|www\.)(.*? )~i','LINK',$message)

PHP:

 

While it seems to work, for this string:

www.google.com
Or
https://meh.com

Code (markup):

It replaces the entire string...because nothing is in there to do newlines. It works fine if you stick a space at the end of the line though

 

Not sure if I understand you properly but to match new lines you can put an s at the end of the regex

preg_replace('~(http://|ftp://|https://|www\.)(.*? )~si','LINK',$message)

PHP:

 

Nope.

I currently have:

preg_replace('~(http://|ftp://|https://|www\.?)(.*)([ \t\r\n\v\f]?)~is', 'LINK$3' , $message);

PHP:

To match all links, and against this string:

www.google.com
Or
https://meh.com

Code (markup):

Or anything similar, it replaces the ENTIRE string with "LINK".

Thank you.