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PHP Linkify Links In Content

I’ve got a little stuck with finding text links and wrapping them in A tags.

I’m using this so far / [\w]*\.[a-z]{2,}/i to find the link which works fine for links like this, stackoverflow.com but it misses www. or anything before hand.

To recap, I’m trying to find all links and wrap in A tags. Non of the text contains the protocol part (http(s)://) or port part which makes it a tad harder.

Answer 1

Can’t find a good duplicate now, so try something simple like repeating the prefix:

 /\b(\w[\w-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}\b/i

I wouldn’t use this; too many false positives. But you haven’t really limited the scope. Alternatives include e.g. a fixed list of TLDs to make it a bit more specific.