Recently I came across a problem making a twitter plugin. I needed to make links which had no “a” tag into links. You can do this progamaticly and here is the solution:
If you are going to use this script please download from here: links.php.txt
function makeClickableLinks($text) {
$text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)',
'1', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)',
'12', $text);
$text = eregi_replace('([_.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[a-z]{2,3})',
'1', $text);
return $text;
}
// Usage
// Email address example
$text = "you@example.com";
echo makeClickableLinks($text);
echo "
";
// URL example
$text = "http://www.example.com";
echo makeClickableLinks($text);
echo "
";
// FTP URL example
$text = "ftp://ftp.example.com";
echo makeClickableLinks($text);