Comments on: Parsing Twitter Usernames, Hashtags and URLs with ColdFusion

By: Jon Ewing

Jon Ewing — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:06:04 +0000

Really useful bit of a script – saved me a load of time, thanks

By: Jon Ewing

Jon Ewing — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:06:00 +0000

Really useful bit of a script – saved me a load of time, thanks

By: Gary Stanton

Gary Stanton — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:07:00 +0000

Thanks for this, worked a treat.

By: jmcdanielx

jmcdanielx — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:48:14 +0000

Thanks for the great posted, here is my php adaptation for preg_replace(): // replace urls with protocols first $tweet = preg_replace('/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/', '$0', $tweet); // replace urls without protocols next $tweet = preg_replace('/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/', '$0', $tweet); // apply links to username $tweet = preg_replace('/[@]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/', '$0', $tweet); // finally replace search strings $tweet = preg_replace('/[#]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/', '$0', $tweet);

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:06:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. One tweak is to check that you don’t match email addresses when parsing twitter handles. For example, email@domain.com shouldn’t link on @domain.

By: PFWD

PFWD — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:41:46 +0000

Thanks,
Helped a lot

By: Devin

Devin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:08:21 +0000

Thanks a ton for this post, and the JS equivalent. You just saved me a lot of headache in figuring out how to turn hashtags into links. I’m not good with regex, so it would have taken me along time to figure out…