I have a website where I have an editor (html) only q sometimes instead of using the button to post the link people paste the link and it gets into text so I'm a regular expression to convert the text to link
$reply = preg_replace(
"/(?<![\>https?:\/\/|href=\"'])(?<http>(https?:[\/][\/]|www\.)([a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|[\/.&?= ]|[~])*)/",
"<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>",
$reply
);
It happens that if the link has "-"
this link does not work, it cuts into "-"
To do this simply add the hyphen and the underscore in the capture list.
(?<![\>https?:\/\/|href=\"'])(?<http>(https?:[\/][\/]|www\.)([a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|[\/.&?=\-_ ]|[~])*)
^^
Your code will look similar to this:
$reply = preg_replace(
"/(?<![\>https?:\/\/|href=\"'])(?<http>(https?:[\/][\/]|www\.)([a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|[\/.&?=\-_ ]|[~])*)/",
"<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>",
$reply);
One suggestion is to simplify and join the - in the regex.
/(?<![\>https?:\/\/|href=\"'])(?<http>(https?:[\/][\/]|www\.)([a-zA-Z0-9\/.&?=-~-]+)*)/
The part that I changed was [a-zA-Z0-9\/.&?=-~-]+ , I removed the | and added - to the character possibilities. I removed the space that a URL should not have.