Today we talk about How to Find URLs in Content, Make Links For Multiple URLs. As the heading suggests we create a PHP function where that function finds the URLs on the content or paragraph or any type of string. This function find all URLs, means 2 or multiple URLs from the content.
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Using this PHP function you can find multiple URLs from the content and make links or add <a> tag on that links. See below source,
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<?php function makeUrlIntoAlink($string){ //The Regular Expression filter $reg_exUrl = "/(?i)\b((?:https?:\/\/|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'\".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/"; // Check if there is a url in the text if(preg_match_all($reg_exUrl, $string, $url)) { // Loop through all matches foreach($url[0] as $newLinks){ if(strstr( $newLinks, ":" ) === false){ $link = 'http://'.$newLinks; }else{ $link = $newLinks; } // Create Search and Replace strings $search = $newLinks; $replace = '<a href="'.$link.'" title="'.$newLinks.'" target="_blank">'.$link.'</a>'; $string = str_replace($search, $replace, $string); } } //Return result return $string; } echo makeUrlIntoAlink("simple PHP function checks if the content contains a URL (e.g. www.google.com) and then takes that URL and converts it into a link.") ?> |
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hi, how can I convert this code to detetc only the first lisnk
for exmaple “something blah blah http://www.google.com/somethingelse/somethingelse“.
I just want to detect the “http://www.google.com/somethingelse/somethingelse”, and avoid any other URLs after that.
Consider, this code will not detect all possible URLs. Regex won’t be enough to solve this. There are libraries to detect URLs available. For me Url highlight – https://github.com/vstelmakh/url-highligh is the best.