Converting text to hyperlink

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While typing 'codeproject.com' in a text editor of any website, how can you convert it into 'For those who code' as hyperlink and redirecting to codeproject.com through out the web.

Posted 7-Sep-15 23:56pm

waleed ahmed wadkar

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LLLLGGGG 8-Sep-15 13:23pm

Maybe like that: For those who code

LLLLGGGG 8-Sep-15 13:24pm

I've written <a href="http://www.codeproject.com">For those who code</a>

waleed ahmed wadkar 14-Oct-15 10:35am

Hey Mate ,

I just wanted to detect the string 'codeproject.com' type by any rookie user in any text form and automatically get convert it into hyperlink...any ideas ?

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LLLLGGGG · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-14T07:43:00

Hi,

You may try to use regex in PHP (http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php[^]) in order to get that result. Follow this[^] tutorial.

What you have to do is simply detect the URL with this

#(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»""‘’]))#iS

regex for instance. You can find other regexes here[^]. And then simply follow the point Finding and replacing strings explained on the aforementioned tutorial to convert the URL to an HTML expression.

Feel free to comment if you have other clues about it ;)

Hope this helps.

LG