I needed a PHP function that would convert URL’s echo’d from MySQL into clickable links. The best function I could find comes from WordPress code, and works beautifully on its own. Additionally supports e-mail and FTP.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 | <?php function _make_url_clickable_cb($matches) { $ret = ''; $url = $matches[2]; if ( empty($url) ) return $matches[0]; // removed trailing [.,;:] from URL if ( in_array(substr($url, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':')) === true ) { $ret = substr($url, -1); $url = substr($url, 0, strlen($url)-1); } return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$url\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$url</a>" . $ret; } function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb($matches) { $ret = ''; $dest = $matches[2]; $dest = 'http://' . $dest; if ( empty($dest) ) return $matches[0]; // removed trailing [,;:] from URL if ( in_array(substr($dest, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':')) === true ) { $ret = substr($dest, -1); $dest = substr($dest, 0, strlen($dest)-1); } return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$dest\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$dest</a>" . $ret; } function _make_email_clickable_cb($matches) { $email = $matches[2] . '@' . $matches[3]; return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$email</a>"; } function make_clickable($ret) { $ret = ' ' . $ret; // in testing, using arrays here was found to be faster $ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([\w]+?://[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_url_clickable_cb', $ret); $ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])((www|ftp)\.[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_web_ftp_clickable_cb', $ret); $ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([.0-9a-z_+-]+)@(([0-9a-z-]+\.)+[0-9a-z]{2,})#i', '_make_email_clickable_cb', $ret); // this one is not in an array because we need it to run last, for cleanup of accidental links within links $ret = preg_replace("#(<a( [^>]+?>|>))<a [^>]+?>([^>]+?)</a></a>#i", "$1$3</a>", $ret); $ret = trim($ret); return $ret; } ?> |
<?php
function _make_url_clickable_cb($matches) {
$ret = '';
$url = $matches[2];
if ( empty($url) )
return $matches[0];
// removed trailing [.,;:] from URL
if ( in_array(substr($url, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':')) === true ) {
$ret = substr($url, -1);
$url = substr($url, 0, strlen($url)-1);
}
return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$url\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$url</a>" . $ret;
}
function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb($matches) {
$ret = '';
$dest = $matches[2];
$dest = 'http://' . $dest;
if ( empty($dest) )
return $matches[0];
// removed trailing [,;:] from URL
if ( in_array(substr($dest, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':')) === true ) {
$ret = substr($dest, -1);
$dest = substr($dest, 0, strlen($dest)-1);
}
return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$dest\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$dest</a>" . $ret;
}
function _make_email_clickable_cb($matches) {
$email = $matches[2] . '@' . $matches[3];
return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$email</a>";
}
function make_clickable($ret) {
$ret = ' ' . $ret;
// in testing, using arrays here was found to be faster
$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([\w]+?://[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_url_clickable_cb', $ret);
$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])((www|ftp)\.[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_web_ftp_clickable_cb', $ret);
$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([.0-9a-z_+-]+)@(([0-9a-z-]+\.)+[0-9a-z]{2,})#i', '_make_email_clickable_cb', $ret);
// this one is not in an array because we need it to run last, for cleanup of accidental links within links
$ret = preg_replace("#(<a( [^>]+?>|>))<a [^>]+?>([^>]+?)</a></a>#i", "$1$3</a>", $ret);
$ret = trim($ret);
return $ret;
}
?>