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Asked: 2026-05-27T14:34:05+00:00

I can see this question has been asked many times before, but I just

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I can see this question has been asked many times before, but I just can’t get my particular implementation to work, so wondered if someone can enlighten me of the error of my ways?!

I have a Twitter feed onto my site and (using PHP) want to replace any URLs mentioned in Tweets with the relevant HTML anchor and HREF.

An example Tweet could be …

No BlackBerry 10 smartphones till Q4 2012: A bad day for BlackBerry fans today after it was revealed that due to... http://t.co/lNEdUUef

I am using the following preg_replace in attempt to alter this …

$tweet2 = preg_replace('#http://\S+#i', '<a href="$0">$0</a>', $tweet);

Unfortunately this isn’t making a blind bit of difference and the text is left unchanged.

Can someone spot what I’ve done wrong and advise accordingly?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this

    $tweet2 = preg_replace( '#(http:\/\/[^ ]+)#i', '<a href="$1">$1</a>', $tweet );

    It should work as expected

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