Kalkran.COM » regular expressions http://kalkran.com Design&Coding Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:48:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 RegEx to find URLs and turn them into hyperlinks http://kalkran.com/tutorials/php/regex-to-find-urls-and-turn-them-into-hyperlinks/ http://kalkran.com/tutorials/php/regex-to-find-urls-and-turn-them-into-hyperlinks/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:11:12 +0000 Kalkran http://kalkran.com/?p=102   $string = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/)?([a-zA-Z0-9\-.]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+([\/]([a-zA-Z0-9_\/\-.?&%=+])*)*)/", '<a href="http://$2">$2</a>', $string);

That little gem right there'll take any length of text and turn the urls in it into hyperlinks. Cool or what? :-)

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