Didsbury Design Blog

I was trying to find a way of picking up URLs from user’s posts and converting them to HTML links. I found a few examples on the net that didn’t work for multiple URLs so I thought i would post a simple solution.

I have used the PHP preg_replace function

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<?php
// The Regular Expression filter
$pattern = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
 
//example text
$text="Example user text with a URL http://www.zero7web.com , second link http://www.didsburydesign.co.uk";
// convert URLs into Links
$text= preg_replace($pattern, "<a href=\"\\0\"?phpMyAdmin=uMSzDU7o3aUDmXyBqXX6JVQaIO3&phpMyAdmin=8d6c4cc61727t4d965138r21cd rel=\"nofollow\">\\0</a>", $text);
 
echo $text;
?>

This will match all the URL’s in the text and not just the first one like so many of the example on the web seem to do!!

I will post a C# .net version of this as a follow up in the next day or so.

All comments welcome.