Replace URLs in text with HTML links

Question

Here is a design though: For example is I put a link such as

http://example.com

in textarea. How do I get PHP t

Answer 1

This worked for me (turned one of the answers into a PHP function)

function make_urls_from_text ($text){
   return preg_replace('/(http[s]{0,1}\:\/\/\S{4,})\s{0,}/ims', '$1 ', $text);
}