PHP parsing content to format URL to become clickable in HTML

format-content-urls-as-html.php

foreach ($chatDatas as $chat)
	{
		//Expression capturing URL string
				$urlXpression = '~(?:(https?)://([^\s<]+)|(www\.[^\s<]+?\.[^\s<]+))(?<![\.,:])~i';
				//replacing in text URL with formatted HTML Linked Tag
		$chatHTML = preg_replace($urlXpression, '<a href="$0" target="_blank" title="$0">$0</a>', $chat);

				//display each chat element
				echo "<tr><td>"
				. $chatHTML["ChatLine"]
				. "</td></tr>";
			}