Question

Using a simple PHP call and Jquery script I’m displaying my twitter feed on my site, it all works fine but I’d like the links on my tweets to be in tags like on twitter.com.

example XML:

<text>There are over 20,000 design based businesses in London alone - http://icanhaz.com/designbusinesses</text>

I’d like to get <a href="...."> .... </a> around the URL so I can return HTML like this:

<p>here are over 20,000 design based businesses in London alone - <a href="http://icanhaz.com/designbusinesses"> ... </a> </p>

Answer 1

A simple Google-search came up with the following code-snippet to change links into a clickable hyperlink in PHP:

http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/code/convert_links_into_clickable_hyperlinks.htm

The code is:

function makeClickableLinks($text) {

  $text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
    '<a href="\\1">\\1</a>', $text);
  $text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',
    '\\1<a href="http://\\2">\\2</a>', $text);
  $text = eregi_replace('([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})',
    '<a href="mailto:\\1">\\1</a>', $text);

   return $text;
}

It changes everything from http:// to ftp:// to mailto: into a link