Detecting URL and Making it as link in Text
Sunday, July 17, 2011 4:20We might be having large text, with urls without links. Instead of editing the text or post, we can make the url as link dynamically while displaying it in browser.
<?php $text = 'This is a simple text to find http://www.google.com and http://www.about.com urls from the text and make it as links URLs will be dynamically formatted as links, this avoid editing each post or text in large archives or database - http://www.largeresource.net/ '; $text = preg_replace( "/(^|\s)((http|https|ftp):\/\/[^\s<]+)/i", '\\1<a href="\\2">\\2</a>', $text ); echo $text; ?>
The above code will find the urls in $text and make it as links dynamically. This code can be used in any part of code structure easily.
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Rex Gilley says:
July 19th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Very useful info. Hope to see more posts soon!