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Twitter Links, Mentions and Hashtag Regex
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twitter_regex.php
<?php
//Urls
$tweet = preg_replace('/(http[^\s]+)/', '<a target="_blank" class="tweet-link" href="$1">$1</a>', $tweet->text);
//Mentions
$tweet = preg_replace('/\@([a-zA-Z1-9]+)/', '<a title="@$1" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/$1" class="tweet-user">@$1</a>', $string);
//Hashtags
$tweet = preg_replace('/#([a-zA-Z1-9]+)/', '<a title="#$1" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23$1&src=hash" class="tweet-hashtag">#$1</a>', $string);
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firasd commented Sep 17, 2017 •
edited

Thanks! For mentions and hashtags I replaced [a-zA-Z1-9]+ with [a-zA-Z0-9_]+ to allow for 0 (zero) and _ (underscore).

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