match url pattern in php using regular expression

Question

I want to match a url link in wall post and replace this link with anchor tag, for this I use the regular expression below.

I would like the match 4 types of url:

Answer 1

use this pattern .

$regex = "(https?\:\/\/|ftp\:\/\/|www\.|[a-z0-9-]+)+([a-z0-9-]+)\.+([a-z]{2,4})((\/|\.)+([a-z0-9-_.\/]*)$|$)";