Php parse links/emails

Question

I am wondering if there is a simple snippet which converts links of any kind:

http://www.cnn.com to http://www.cnn.com&l         


        

Answer 1

I know is 5 years late, however I needed a similar solution and the best answer I got was from the user - erwan-dupeux-maire

Answer

I write this function. It replaces all the links in a string. Links can be in the following formats :

• www.example.com
• http://example.com
• https://example.com
• example.fr

The second argument is the target for the link ('_blank', '_top'... can be set to false). Hope it helps...

public static function makeLinks($str, $target='_blank')
{
    if ($target)
    {
        $target = ' target="'.$target.'"';
    }
    else
    {
        $target = '';
    }
    // find and replace link
    $str = preg_replace('@((https?://)?([-\w]+\.[-\w\.]+)+\w(:\d+)?(/([-\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)*)@', '$1', $str);
    // add "http://" if not set
    $str = preg_replace('/]*href\s*=\s*"((?!https?:\/\/)[^"]*)"[^>]*>/i', '', $str);
    return $str;
}