Are there any best practices for efficiently converting links into clickable links in PHP?

When converting links into clickable links in PHP, one best practice is to use the preg_replace function with a regular expression to match URLs in the text and replace them with clickable HTML links. This ensures that all URLs are properly converted into clickable links without breaking the existing text formatting. 

function convert_links_to_clickable($text) {
    return preg_replace('/(https?:\/\/[^\s]+)/', '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $text);
}

$text = "Check out this website: https://www.example.com";
echo convert_links_to_clickable($text);

Keywords

Regular expressions preg_replace HTML links anchor tags URL parsing

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