URL2Link – Detect URL and Convert to Link

URL2Link() is a function to change an email address or URL or FTP into a clickable HTML hyperlink using eregi_replace(). <?php function URL2Link($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; } // Usage // Email address example $text = “[email protected]”; … Read more