What are some alternative methods or scripts available for making URLs clickable in PHP?

One alternative method for making URLs clickable in PHP is to use regular expressions to identify URLs within a string and replace them with clickable links. This can be achieved by using the `preg_replace` function to search for URLs in the string and wrap them in `<a>` tags. 

function makeUrlsClickable($text) {
    $pattern = &#039;/(http[s]?:\/\/[^\s]+)/&#039;;
    $replacement = &#039;&lt;a href=&quot;$1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;$1&lt;/a&gt;&#039;;
    return preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $text);
}

$text = &quot;Check out my website at http://www.example.com&quot;;
echo makeUrlsClickable($text);

Keywords

Regular expressions preg_replace HTML links URL detection URL parsing

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