Question

Is there anyway to convert plain text URLs to HTML hyperlinks in PHP? I need to convert URLs of following type:

http://example.com
http://example.org
http://example.gov/
http://example.com?q=sometext&opt=thisandthat
http://example.com#path
http://example.com?q=querypath#path
http://example.com/somepath/index.html

https://example.com/
https://example.org/
https://example.gov/
https://example.com?q=sometext&opt=thisandthat
https://example.com#path
https://example.com?q=querypath#path
https://example.com/somepath/index.html

http://www.example.com/
http://www.example.org/
http://www.example.gov/
http://www.example.com?q=sometext&opt=thisandthat
http://www.example.com#path
http://www.example.com?q=querypath#path
http://www.example.com/somepath/index.html

https://www.example.com/
https://www.example.org/
https://www.example.gov/
https://www.example.com?q=sometext&opt=thisandthat
https://www.example.com#path
https://www.example.com?q=querypath#path
https://www.example.com/somepath/index.html

www.example.com/
www.example.org/
www.example.gov/
www.example.com?q=sometext&opt=thisandthat
www.example.com/#path
www.example.com?q=querypath#path
www.example.com/somepath/index.html

example.com/
example.org/
example.gov/
example.com?q=sometext&opt=thisandthat
example.com/#path
example.com?q=querypath#path
example.com/somepath/index.html

Answer 1

How about running them through a regular expression like the following used to re-activate Twitter links –

http://www.burnmind.com/howto/how-to-convert-twitter-mentions-and-urls-to-active-links-using-regular-expressions-in-php