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Auto Link HTML In PHP

09.26.2008

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        // linkify URLs in a block of text.

function make_clickable($text)
{
    $ret = ' ' . $text;
    $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"\\2\" >\\2</a>'", $ret);
    $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\" >\\2</a>'", $ret);
    $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([a-z0-9&\-_\.]+?)@([\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)*[\w]+)#i", "\\1<a href=\"mailto:\\2@\\3\">\\2@\\3</a>", $ret);
    $ret = substr($ret, 1);
    return($ret);
}

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Snippets Manager replied on Sun, 2011/03/27 - 7:41am

Eli - Awesome man thanks Stasonix - a little late but maybe for others:


function make_clickable($text)
{
    $ret = ' ' . $text;
    $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)#ise", "'\\1\\2'", $ret);
    $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1\\2'", $ret);
    $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([a-z0-9&\-_\.]+?)@([\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)*[\w]+)#i", "\\1\\2@\\3", $ret);
    $ret = substr($ret, 1);
    return($ret);
}

Snippets Manager replied on Sun, 2011/03/27 - 7:41am

Eli - Awesome man thanks Stasonix - a little late but maybe for others: function make_clickable($text) { $ret = ' ' . $text; $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)#ise", "'\\1\\2'", $ret); $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1\\2'", $ret); $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([a-z0-9&\-_\.]+?)@([\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)*[\w]+)#i", "\\1\\2@\\3", $ret); $ret = substr($ret, 1); return($ret); }

Snippets Manager replied on Wed, 2011/02/09 - 1:06pm

Hi! I use your function on links in my chat that have frames, and when I click on link it's open in the same frame, but I need it open in a new window, how to fix that?