• Find link to the string

    August 30, 2013

    This function searches a string for urls and converts them into anchor tags. This is particularly useful for tweets pulled from Twitter using the API. This is used to prepare the links in any Twitter feed at the bottom of the website.

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    function make_links($str) 
{
	$reg_ex_url = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
	$urls = array();
	$urls_to_replace = array();
 
	if (preg_match_all($reg_ex_url, $str, $urls)) 
	{
		$numOfMatches = count($urls[0]);
		$url_count = 0;
 
		for($i=0; $i<$numOfMatches; $i++) {
			$alreadyAdded = false;
			$url_count = count($urls_to_replace);
 
			for($j=0; $j<$url_count; $j++) {
				if($urls_to_replace[$j] == $urls[0][$i]) 
				{
					$alreadyAdded = true;
				}
			}
 
			if(!$alreadyAdded) 
			{
				array_push($urls_to_replace, $urls[0][$i]);
			}
		}
 
		$url_count = count($urls_to_replace);
 
		for($i=0; $i<$url_count; $i++) {
			$str = str_replace($urls_to_replace[$i], "".$urls_to_replace[$i]." ", $str);
		}
 
		return $str;
	} 
	else 
	{
		return $str;
	}
}
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