I've implemented "linkify" on our OSticket system and it seems to be working wonderfully, except for one noted flaw that I didn't notice in the documentiation http://jmrware.com/articles/2010/linkifyurl/linkify.php. When the link is followed by a ), it INCLUDES that ) in the link. GRRR
So I was wondering if there are any super regex guys out there that might be able to debug seeing as how linkify hasn't been updated in a couple years now...
Here is the regex if needed:
$url_pattern = '/# Rev:20100913_0900 github.com\/jmrware\/LinkifyURL
# Match http & ftp URL that is not already linkified.
# Alternative 1: URL delimited by (parentheses).
(\() # $1 "(" start delimiter.
((?:ht|f)tps?:\/\/[a-z0-9\-._~!$&\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]+) # $2: URL.
(\)) # $3: ")" end delimiter.
| # Alternative 2: URL delimited by [square brackets].
(\[) # $4: "[" start delimiter.
((?:ht|f)tps?:\/\/[a-z0-9\-._~!$&\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]+) # $5: URL.
(\]) # $6: "]" end delimiter.
| # Alternative 3: URL delimited by {curly braces}.
(\{) # $7: "{" start delimiter.
((?:ht|f)tps?:\/\/[a-z0-9\-._~!$&\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]+) # $8: URL.
(\}) # $9: "}" end delimiter.
| # Alternative 4: URL delimited by <angle brackets>.
(<|&(?:lt|\#60|\#x3c);) # $10: "<" start delimiter (or HTML entity).
((?:ht|f)tps?:\/\/[a-z0-9\-._~!$&\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]+) # $11: URL.
(>|&(?:gt|\#62|\#x3e);) # $12: ">" end delimiter (or HTML entity).
| # Alternative 5: URL not delimited by (), [], {} or <>.
( # $13: Prefix proving URL not already linked.
(?: ^ # Can be a beginning of line or string, or
| [^=\s\'"\]] # a non-"=", non-quote, non-"]", followed by
) \s*[\'"]? # optional whitespace and optional quote;
| [^=\s]\s+ # or... a non-equals sign followed by whitespace.
) # End $13. Non-prelinkified-proof prefix.
( \b # $14: Other non-delimited URL.
(?:ht|f)tps?:\/\/ # Required literal http, https, ftp or ftps prefix.
[a-z0-9\-._~!$\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]+ # All URI chars except "&" (normal*).
(?: # Either on a "&" or at the end of URI.
(?! # Allow a "&" char only if not start of an...
&(?:gt|\#0*62|\#x0*3e); # HTML ">" entity, or
| &(?:amp|apos|quot|\#0*3[49]|\#x0*2[27]); # a [&\'"] entity if
[.!&\',:?;]? # followed by optional punctuation then
(?:[^a-z0-9\-._~!$&\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]|$) # a non-URI char or EOS.
) & # If neg-assertion true, match "&" (special).
[a-z0-9\-._~!$\'()*+,;=:\/?#[\]@%]* # More non-& URI chars (normal*).
)* # Unroll-the-loop (special normal*)*.
[a-z0-9\-_~$()*+=\/#[\]@%] # Last char can\'t be [.!&\',;:?]
) # End $14. Other non-delimited URL.
/imx';
I started to play around with it, but it proves to be a bit over my head. I am also up for OTHER alternative suggestions instead of linkify as well?
If you note the second to last line: # Last char can\'t be [.!&\',;:?] Basically, it'd be nice to add a ) in there.... ?
