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phpregexpreg-replace
Francesca
Francesca

Reputation: 28188

Locate link in string and change to HTML link

I'm aware there are other answers to similar questions, however I have tried code examples I previously found and cannot get any of them to work.

I want to locate whether a string contains a url (starting with http or https) and then convert that link into an actual HTML link by adding <a> tags around it.

This is the code I have:

$text = 'Yummy brunch http://t.co/5AlmSPZeRd';

    if ((strpos($text,'http') !== false)) {
        echo "yep!";
        preg_replace('!(http|https)(s)?:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9.?%=&_/]+!', "<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>", $text);
    }

While my "yep!" message does show (proving that the if statement is correct), the preg_replace doesn't occur. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 34

Answers (1)

Toto
Toto

Reputation: 91518

How about:

$text = 'Yummy brunch http://t.co/5AlmSPZeRd';

if ((strpos($text,'http') !== false)) {
    echo "yep!";
    $text = preg_replace('!https?://\S+!', "<a href=\"$0\">$0</a>", $text);
}

Upvotes: 2

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