Wrap link around links in tweets with php preg_replace

Posted by Ben Paton on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Ben Paton
Published on 2010-11-25T02:31:34Z Indexed on 2010/12/25 20:54 UTC
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Hello I'm trying to display the latest tweet using the code below. This preg_replace works great for wrapping a link round twitter @usernames but doesn't work for web addresses in tweets. How do I get this code to wrap links around urls in tweets.

        <?php
        /** Script to pull in the latest tweet */
        $username='fairgroceruk';
        $format = 'json';
        $tweet = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/{$username}.{$format}"));
        $latestTweet = htmlentities($tweet[0]->text, ENT_QUOTES);
        $latestTweet = preg_replace('/@([a-z0-9_]+)/i', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$1" target="_blank">@$1</a>', $latestTweet);
        $latestTweet = preg_replace('/http://([a-z0-9_]+)/i', '<a href="http://$1" target="_blank">http://$1</a>', $latestTweet); echo $latestTweet;

    ?>

Thanks for the help,

Ben

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