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<?php
$text = "demo link edno www.abv.bg link 2 http://abv123.bg/";
$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
preg_match_all($reg_exUrl, $text, $matches);
$usedPatterns = array();
foreach($matches[0] as $pattern){
if(!array_key_exists($pattern, $usedPatterns)){
$usedPatterns[$pattern]=true;
$text = str_replace ($pattern, "<a href='{$pattern}' target='_blank'>{$pattern}</a> ", $text);
}
}
echo $text;