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September 14th, 2008

SecretTweet

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SecretTweet.com is a personal project of mine that revolves around Twitter. It allows Twitter users to input a "tweet" and have it published anonymously to the over 30,000 @SecretTweet followers and hundreds of thousands of visitors to SecretTweet.com. This project has been featured by The New York Times, VentureBeat, The LA Times, el pais, and many other popular news websites. This project was also mention on the Fox News morning program "Fox and Friends" (video here) and was published in the Twitter API book written by Kevin Makice titled Twitter API: Up and Running.

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September 13th, 2008

PHP: Autolink Text – Twitter @replies

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Update: To prevent any confusion the code highlighter might cause in the post, I added a plain text version of this post here.
I noticed a lot of sites allow user submitted content but prevent autolinking of urls. Some of the most common instances of this are on Twitter sites (much like my own creation: SecretTweet.com). So I threw together a function to autolink urls:

 
<?
$text= 'Hey go to google.com moo http://google.com moo www.google.com moo http://wwww.google.com/404.php moo';
function linkify(&$text)
{
//CONVERT *://.* TO LINK (EG HTTP://KEVINSMITHDESIGNS.COM)
$text = ereg_replace("[a-zA-Z]+://([.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-])*", "\\0", $text);
//CONVERT *://*.* TO LINK (EG HTTP://WWW.KEVINSMITHDESIGNS.COM)
$text = ereg_replace("(^| )(www([.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-])*)", "\\1\\2", $text);
return $text;
}
echo linkify($text);
?>
 

Would return "Hey go to google.com moo http://google.com moo www.google.com moo http://wwww.google.com/404.php moo".

And since I made this primarily for Twitter, the following will linke @ replies automatically, too:

 
<?
$tweet = "Hey @mozunk! Go check out http://digsby.com -- I think you will like it.";
function twitterify(&$tweet) {
//CONVERT *://.* TO LINK (EG HTTP://KEVINSMITHDESIGNS.COM)
$tweet = ereg_replace("[a-zA-Z]+://([.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-])*", "\\0", $tweet);
//CONVERT *://*.* TO LINK (EG HTTP://WWW.KEVINSMITHDESIGNS.COM)
$tweet = ereg_replace("(^| )(www([.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_/-])*)", "\\1\\2", $tweet);
//LINK @USERNAME
$tweet = preg_replace('/([\.|\,|\:|\¡|\¿|\>|\{|\(]?)@{1}(\w*)([\.|\,|\:|\!|\?|\>|\}|\)]?)\s/i', "$1@$2$3 ", $tweet);return $tweet;
}
echo twitterify(&$tweet);
?>
 

Would return "Hey @mozunk! Go check out http://digsby.com -- I think you will like it."

I'll be implementing this into SecretTweet pretty soon. I haven't decided if I want to autolink URLs or not...maybe just @replies.
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