Wrap link around links in tweets with php preg_replace
- by Ben Paton
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
