Facebook Hash Tag and Clickable Link Tutorial

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Today is another fresh tutorial for your social media networking site. after this tutorial you will be able to enable #hashtags and clickable link into your media networks as most social media do. I used this script on my Jquery instant messager app.

Function for hashtag
The script below contain function for clickable link and hashtag, copy and run the code...

1. <?php
   
2. //convert hashtags
   
3. function
   
   gethashtags(
   
   $text
   
   )
   
4. {
   
5. //Match the hashtags
   
6. preg_match_all
   
   (
   
   '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])#([a-z0-9_]+)/i'
   
   ,
   
   $text
   
   ,
   
   $matchedHashtags
   
   )
   
   ;
   
7. $hashtag
   
   =
   
   ''
   
   ;
   
8. // For each hashtag, strip all characters but alpha numeric
   
9. if
   
   (
   
   !
   
   empty
   
   (
   
   $matchedHashtags
   
   [
   
   0
   
   ]
   
   )
   
   )
   
   {
   
10. foreach
    
    (
    
    $matchedHashtags
    
    [
    
    0
    
    ]
    
    as
    
    $match
    
    )
    
    {
    
11. $hashtag
    
    .=
    
    preg_replace
    
    (
    
    "/[^a-z0-9]+/i"
    
    ,
    
    ""
    
    ,
    
    $match
    
    )
    
    .
    
    ','
    
    ;
    
12. }
    
13. }
    
14. //to remove last comma in a string
    
15. return
    
    rtrim
    
    (
    
    $hashtag
    
    ,
    
    ','
    
    )
    
    ;
    
16. }
    
17. 
    
18. //convert text to clickable links
    
19. function
    
    convert_clickable_links(
    
    $message
    
    )
    
20. {
    
21. $parsedMessage
    
    =
    
    preg_replace
    
    (
    
    array
    
    (
    
    '/(?i)\b((?:https?:\/\/|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:\'".,<>?«»“â€â€˜â€™]))/'
    
    ,
    
    '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])@([a-z0-9_]+)/i'
    
    ,
    
    '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])#([a-z0-9_]+)/i'
    
    )
    
    ,
    
    array
    
    (
    
    '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>'
    
    ,
    
    '$1<a href="">@$2</a>'
    
    ,
    
    '$1<a target="_blank" href="http://codexpresslab.blogspot.com.ng/search?q=$2">#$2</a>'
    
    )
    
    ,
    
    $message
    
    )
    
    ;
    
22. return
    
    $parsedMessage
    
    ;
    
23. }
    
24. $txt
    
    =
    
    "hello man this is #hashtags tutorial. http://codexpresslab.blogspot.com/"
    
    ;
    
25. echo
    
    convert_clickable_links(
    
    $txt
    
    )
    
    ;
    
26. ?>
    

Conclusion:
I hope you successfully add this function to your site. If you are facing any difficulty then let me know via comments. Keep sharing this post with your friends so that they can also enjoy the post till then Happy Coding!