PHP - CONVERT URL IN A STRING TO HYPERLINKS

If you are working with forums, blogs or even a normal form submission, many times you end us asking user for a website. Using the function, the URL string would automatically convert to a hyperlink.

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function makeClickableLinks($text) {   $text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)',   '<a href="\1">\1</a>', $text);   $text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)',   '\1<a href="http://\2">\2</a>', $text);   $text = eregi_replace('([_.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[a-z]{2,3})',   '<a href="mailto:\1">\1</a>', $text);      return $text;   }

Syntax

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<?php $text = "This is my first post on http://blog.koonk.com"; $text = makeClickableLinks($text); echo $text; ?>