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troynt on 03/28/09

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Convert Text URLs into Links

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linkify_plain:function(text)
	{
		if( !text ) return text;
 
		text = text.replace(/((https?\:\/\/|ftp\:\/\/)|(www\.))(\S+)(\w{2,4})(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?/gi,function(url){
			nice = url;
			if( url.match('^https?:\/\/') )
			{
				nice = nice.replace(/^https?:\/\//i,'')
			}
			else
				url = 'http://'+url;
 
 
			return '<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="'+ url +'">'+ nice.replace(/^www./i,'') +'</a>';
		});
 
		return text;
	}

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Posted By: Sephr on March 29, 2009

You do know that that's not valid javascript and will cause an error? Don't just copy/paste some code from a script and expect it to work. Replace linkify_plain:function(text) with function linkify_plain(text)

Posted By: troynt on April 8, 2009

Sorry I was using it in the context of...

object = { linkify_plain:function(text) { //code here } }

Posted By: MaRmAR on December 12, 2010

This function works OK, but actually it will replace all links including links in tags (IMG, existing A HREFs, STYLE etc.)

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