How to replace an url in a text

Discussion in 'PHP' started by gladikarthik, Jan 4, 2010.

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    Hello Every one..
    i need regular expression to replace a url with link.

    consider
    $text=welcome to http://www.mysite.com continue with some content

    jst my need is

    $text=welcome to <a href="http://www.mysite.com">http://www.mysite.com</a> continue with some content...

    i tried

    $text=preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+:)\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1">$1</a>', $text);

    but it womits the url after a hypen(-) presents
    ex http://www.mysite.com/test-link will went to http://www.mysite.com/test

    help me in this issue,,, thanks
     
    gladikarthik, Jan 4, 2010 IP
  2. MyVodaFone

    MyVodaFone Well-Known Member

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$text = "welcome to http://www.mysite.com continue with some content"; 

$search = "/(http[s]*:\/\/[\S]+)/";
$replace = "<a href='\${1}'>\${1}</a>";
$output = preg_replace($search, $replace, $text)
    PHP:
     
    MyVodaFone, Jan 5, 2010 IP
  3. gladikarthik

    gladikarthik Peon

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    Thank you..Its Working.....
     
    gladikarthik, Jan 5, 2010 IP