I have a web application written with PHP. I wanted to find all URLs inside users comments and change them to clickable links. I searched many websites and pages and found the solution below (Unfortunately I did not find its reference link again):
<?php
function convert($input) {
$pattern = '@(http)?(s)?(://)?(([a-zA-Z])([-\w]+\.)+([^\s\.]+[^\s]*)+[^,.\s])@';
return $output = preg_replace($pattern, '<a href="http$2://$4">$0</a>', $input);
}
?>
This code works perfectly thanks to its author. But I found out there is a bug in it that I could not solve.
If detected URL started with s letter (without https), the href value won't have that s character and http will change to https, whereas inner text is correct.
Example:
source.com >> <a href="https://ource.com">source.com</a>
Do you have any solution to solve this bug?