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<?php $string = <<<STR Hello @username you need to check this http://github.com and @username you need to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask or https://stackoverflow.com STR; $pattern = "~(?<!\S)(?:(@[^\s@]+)(?!\S)[^h]*(?:h(?!ttp)[^h]*)*+)?\K((?:https?|ftp|file)://\S+)~"; $result = preg_replace_callback($pattern, function($m){ return sprintf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $m[2],$m[1] !== "" ? $m[1] : $m[2]); }, $string); echo $result;
Output for 7.2.0 - 7.2.34, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.18, 8.5.0 - 8.5.3
Hello @username you need to check this <a href="http://github.com">@username</a> and @username you need to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask">@username</a> or <a href="https://stackoverflow.com">https://stackoverflow.com</a>

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