Better way?

[frost]

$Text = preg_replace("/(http[s]?){1}:\/\/([:a-z_\-\\.\/0-9%~]+){1}(\?[a-z=0-9\-_&;]*)?(\#[a-z0-9]+)?/", " <a href=\"$1://$2$3$4\">$1://$2$3$4</a>", $Text);

$Text = preg_replace('/\s(www\.)(\S+)/', ' <a href="http://\\1\\2" target="_blank">\\1\\2</a>', $Text);
echo stripslashes($Text);

 

I was able to slap together these 2 replacements for changing plain text links into active links. One finds all the text with http and the second finds the www text. I was wondering if there is a better way to do this?

 

Cheers.