Online PHP editor | refs for 57Wq8

<?php function txt2link($text){ // force http: on www. $text = preg_replace( "www\.", "http://www.", $text ); // eliminate duplicates after force $text = preg_replace( "http://http://www\.", "http://www.", $text ); $text = preg_replace( "https://http://www\.", "https://www.", $text ); // The Regular Expression filter $reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/"; // Check if there is a url in the text if(preg_match($reg_exUrl, $text, $url)) { // make the urls hyper links $text = preg_replace($reg_exUrl, '<a href="'.$url[0].'" rel="nofollow">'.$url[0].'</a>', $text); } // if no urls in the text just return the text return ($text); } $str = 'Hi bro! Look at my new website: www.example.com. I leard to build websites from http://another.example.net and from example.net.'; $newStr = txt2link($str); echo $newStr;