Comments on: Parse URL’s in text, create links

By: ChicagoBrown

ChicagoBrown — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:04:37 +0000

This code is awesome, thanks for the help!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:10:59 +0000

Here’s an[other] updated linkify() function that turns @account tokens into Twitter account links as well. Let’s hope WordPress doesn’t mangle this one too badly…

function linkify( $text ) {
  $text = preg_replace( '/(?!<\S)(\w+:\/\/[^<>\s]+\w)(?!\S)/i', '$1', $text );
  $text = preg_replace( '/(?!<\S)#(\w+\w)(?!\S)/i', '#$1', $text );
  $text = preg_replace( '/(?!<\S)@(\w+\w)(?!\S)/i', '@$1', $text );
  return $text;
}

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:53:11 +0000

I've updated the linkify() function to include support for turning #hashtags into links as well (excuse my having converted from ereg_* to preg_* - just a comfort-zone thing).

function linkify( $text ) {
  $text = preg_replace( '/(?!<\S)(\w+:\/\/[^<>\s]+\w)(?!\S)/i', '$1', $text );
  $text = preg_replace( '/(?!<\S)#(\S+\w)(?!\S)/i', '#$1', $text );
  return $text;
}

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:40:18 +0000

Stupid WordPress editor mangled the code. It’s fixed, try the above.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:37:14 +0000

Here is my Entire Code… Works great, check out the Links Page of my site…

http://thefoxxfamily.com/

CODE:

function twitter_status($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = true) {
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15456263.xml&quot ;
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
$response = curl_exec($c);
$responseInfo = curl_getinfo($c);
curl_close($c);
if (intval($responseInfo['http_code']) == 200) {
if (class_exists('SimpleXMLElement')) {
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
return $xml;
} else {
return $response;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}

function linkify_twitter_status($status_text)
{
// linkify URLs
$status_text = preg_replace(
'/(https?:\/\/\S )/',
'\1‘,
$status_text
);

// linkify twitter users
$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(^|\s)@(\w )/’,
‘\1@\2‘,
$status_text
);

// linkify tags
$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(^|\s)#(\w )/’,
‘\1#\2‘,
$status_text
);

return $status_text;
}

if ( $twitter_xml = twitter_status(’12345678′) ) {
date_default_timezone_set(‘GMT’);
$tz = new DateTimeZone(‘America/New_York’);
$i = 0;
foreach ($twitter_xml->status as $key => $status) {
$datetime = new DateTime($status->created_at);
$datetime->setTimezone($tz);
$time_display = $datetime->format(‘D, M jS g:ia T’);
?>
text) . ” . $time_display; ?>

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:27:12 +0000

I tried this. I changed the name of variable from $t to $tweettext and then I updated the ereg_replace statement.

function linkify($tweettext) {
$tweettext = ereg_replace(“[[:alpha:]] ://[^[:space:]] [[:alnum:]/]”,”\“, $tweettext);
return $tweettext;
}

It worked for me. Although I am real interested to see how Dan’s solution works.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:50:14 +0000

I too had some issues with the original code. Dan, I tried your code and still could not get it to work. Are you still using the same output method?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:26:42 +0000

Had trouble with your code, lost the link text and it Linked ever Tweet below with a false link. I tried this out and it worked Great, not sure the difference…
(It links the Hash Tags and the @danfoxx too.)

function linkify($status_text)
{
// linkify URLs
$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(https?:\/\/\S )/’,
‘\1‘,
$status_text
);

// linkify twitter users
$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(^|\s)@(\w )/’,
‘\1@\2‘,
$status_text
);

// linkify tags
$status_text = preg_replace(
‘/(^|\s)#(\w )/’,
‘\1#\2‘,
$status_text
);

return $status_text;
}