Comments on: PHP Regex to Make Twitter Links Clickable

By: James Cridland

James Cridland — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:36:39 +0000

I use this on Media UK - www.mediauk.com - to power a few things, including the ingest of the media tweets on the front page.

You might like to add
$ret = html_entity_decode($ret);
at the start of the function - otherwise you see odd things going on when Twitter (or some client) HTML-encodes things like pound signs.

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By: Martin Bean

Martin Bean — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:54:59 +0000

I think that's the exact same set of regular expressions I'm using to parse links on my website home page.

By: Jacob Fike

Jacob Fike — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:09:08 +0000

Very nice. I remember when Regex seemed like magic, but now it is one of my most often used tools.

By: Stace

Stace — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:36:55 +0000

This is great! I'm just learning preg replace and regex and had already spent some time trying to figure this out with no result in sight. Thank you very much.

One quickie, though: email addresses. Some tweets contain 'you@gmail.com' with the predictable result of only '@gmail' linking to www.twitter.com/gmail. Any thoughts on a fix?

Thanks again!

By: snipe

snipe — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:32:54 +0000

Excellent – glad to hear it!

By: Joel R

Joel R — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:09:15 +0000

This totally kicks ass and saved me a good hour+ of work and I'm really good with regexs.

Thanks!!

By: snipe

snipe — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:17:37 +0000

LOL It's good to know you're not prone to hyperbole or anything. I'm glad it helped!

By: snipe

snipe — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:17:37 +0000

LOL It's good to know you're not prone to hyperbole or anything. I'm glad it helped!

By: Taylor Dewey

Taylor Dewey — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:44:58 +0000

This is beautiful.. no seriously, almost made me cry when I saw it. I was about to put “twitter-ifying” my twitter RSS feed on the back-burner, but this is drop-in beauty. Thanks.