Question

I have a function that parses text form posts and if there’s a link in the post it’ll redirect the link to a page that warns a users about external link before they click it.

function url2link($txt) {
     $setUrl = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/|(www\.))(([^\s<]{4,68})[^\s<]*)/", '<a href="/link/$2$3" rel="nofollow">$2$4</a>', $txt);
     return $setUrl;
}

I need to modify this function by adding a check for domain in the link. If the link is from my own domain, just convert it into clickable link like this:

$setUrl = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/|(www\.))(([^\s<]{4,68})[^\s<]*)/", '<a href="http://$2$3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$2$4</a>', $txt);

but if it is a link to an external domain — make a link point to a warning page (top example).

I am sort of stuck here because I have no idea how to add this check. There could be multiple links in a post, some may have local, some external links and some a mix.

Answer 1

Try with preg_replace_callback, then you can process the matches to decide whether it’s your own domain or some other.