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URL to HTML link PHP parser

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  1. function parseURLs($str, $length = 15){
  2. 		preg_match_all('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([-\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@',$str,$matches);
  3. 		if($matches){
  4. 			foreach($matches[0] as $url){
  5. 				$text = $length ? shortText($url,$length) : $url;
  6. 				$replace = '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$text.'</a>';
  7. 				$str = str_replace($url,$replace,$str);
  8. 			}
  9. 		}		
  10. 		return $str;			
  11. 	}
  12.  
  13. 	function shortText($text, $chars){
  14. 		$str = $text;
  15. 		if(strlen($str) > $chars){ 
  16. 			$str = substr($str, 0, $chars); 
  17. 			$str .= "..."; 
  18. 			return $str;
  19. 		}else { 
  20. 			return $str; 
  21. 		} 
  22. 	}

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