Auto convert URL into clickable hyperlink in WordPress

<? 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\">$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\">$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; }
In WordPress, if you want to auto convert all URLs in your string into clickable hyperlinks, you can actually do it using the built-in function make_clickable(). If you need to do that outside of WordPress, you can refer to the function’s source code at wp-includes/formatting.php.

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