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PHP Auto-link Function
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| function auto_link($text) { | |
| $pattern = '/(((http[s]?:\/\/(.+(:.+)?@)?)|(www\.))[a-z0-9](([-a-z0-9]+\.)*\.[a-z]{2,})?\/?[a-z0-9.,_\/~#&=:;%+!?-]+)/is'; | |
| $text = preg_replace($pattern, ' <a href="$1">$1</a>', $text); | |
| // fix URLs without protocols | |
| $text = preg_replace('/href="www/', 'href="http://www', $text); | |
| return $text; | |
| } |
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This was one of the most popular code snippets on my old blog and I still use it to this day, so I decided to port it over to this Gist. Let me know if you run into any issues where this doesn't match a valid URL or matches something that's not a valid URL.