Function To Automatically Create Links

[JustinK101]

Looking for help writing a function that does the following:

 

Look for http:// or https:// in a string and replaces it with an <a href> tag. For example:

 

Here is my link http://www.mydomain.com some further text here.

 

Becomes:

 

Here is my link <a href="http://www.mydomain.com">http://www.mydomain.com</a> some further text here.

[redarrow]

preg_replace();

[sohaibshaheen]

Looking for help writing a function that does the following:

 

Look for http:// or https:// in a string and replaces it with an <a href> tag. For example:

 

Here is my link http://www.mydomain.com some further text here.

 

Becomes:

 

Here is my link <a href="http://www.mydomain.com">http://www.mydomain.com</a> some further text here.

 

 

This id pretty simple. All you have to do is:

 

$text="hello I am doing well http://www.google.com ok";
preg_match("/[a-zA-Z]+[:\/\/]+[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+\\.+[A-Za-z0-9\.\/%&=\?\-_]+/i",$text,$url);

$new= "<a href=\"$url[0]\">$url[0]</a>";

echo preg_replace("/[a-zA-Z]+[:\/\/]+[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+\\.+[A-Za-z0-9\.\/%&=\?\-_]+/i",$new,$text);

 

And you are done...

[jcbones]

Un-tested

function stringToAnchor($str) {
return preg_replace('~((mailto\:|(news|(ht|f)tp(s?))\://){1}\S+)~','<a href="$1">$1</a>',$str);
}

//Testing
echo stringToAnchor('You can find the best deals at http://www.google.com');