I want to remove http://
& https://
I add this inline: ^https?://
preg_replace(array('/(?i)\b((^https?:////\/\/|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:\'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/', '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])@([a-z0-9_]+)/i', '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])#(\w+)/u')
Try and fail, syntax error ?
If you just want to remove http://
and https://
(which is your question), this will do the trick:
$str = preg_replace('/(https?:\/\/)/', '', 'http://example.com');
If you only want to remove them if a string starts with either of those protocols:
$str = preg_replace('/^(https?:\/\/)/', '', 'http://example.com');
The ^
right after the initial delimiter means "start of the string".
function remove_http($url) {
$disallowed = array('http://', 'https://');
foreach($disallowed as $d) {
if(strpos($url, $d) === 0) {
return str_replace($d, '', $url);
}
}
return $url;
}