I have strings:
$string1 = 'Hi John. Please, go to my website http://www.google.com :)'; $string2 = 'See this :P www.imgurl.com/abcd.jpg'; How can I convert this strings to:
$string1 = 'Hi John. Please, go to my website <a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a> :)'; $string2 = 'See this :P <img src="http://www.imgurl.com/abcd.jpg" alt ="" />'; I dont know ;(
The best approach will be to use a regular expression to replace your URL with either the <a> Tag or the <img> Tag. The tricky part will be to determine whether it is an image or a normal URL.
Read here about PHP preg_replace function: https://www.php.net/preg_replace
And here is a list of regular expressions to match URLs: http://regexlib.com/Search.aspx?k=url&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
