PHP Twitter replace link and hashtag with real link

Question

I am looping over JSON response from Twitter API. Each API response gives me a tweet similar to:

Hi my name is @john, and I love #soccer, visit me

Answer 1

Heres the function which converts hashtags, user mentions and urls to links, using 'entities' data on a tweet from Twitter API.

#Google#%1$s', $hash, urlencode($hash)), $text);
    }

    // user_mentions
    $linkified = array();
    foreach ($tweet['entities']['user_mentions'] as $userMention) {
        $name = $userMention['name'];
        $screenName = $userMention['screen_name'];

        if (in_array($screenName, $linkified)) {
            continue; // do not process same user mention twice or more
        }
        $linkified[] = $screenName;

        // replace single words only, so looking for @John we wont linkify >@John@%1$s', $screenName, $name), $text);
    }

    // urls
    $linkified = array();
    foreach ($tweet['entities']['urls'] as $url) {
        $url = $url['url'];

        if (in_array($url, $linkified)) {
            continue; // do not process same url twice or more
        }
        $linkified[] = $url;

        $text = str_replace($url, sprintf('%1$s', $url), $text);
    }

    return $text;
}