The FindURL class (v1.0)
Please note: This class has been updated. Please click here to see the latest changes.
Whilst I was playing around with the Twitter API I was beginning to get wound up by the fact that the XML feed from Twitter only sends out text versions of tweets and not HTML versions. For example, lets say a tweet says “Check out this cool link: http://www.plagro.com”, the xml feed from twitter would send out:
Check out this cool link: http://www.plagro.com"
as oppose to the html version containing the “a” link tag:
Check out this cool link: <a href="http://www.plagro.com">http://www.plagro.com</a>
So after trawling the forums looking for alternative feeds and/or HTML convertors, I came to the conclusion that it would be easier to write a small class that simply finds links within blocks of text and adds in the html tags so it can be displayed as HTML text. The result is the FindURL class.
