This function’s access is marked private. This means it is not intended for use by plugin or theme developers, only in other core functions. It is listed here for completeness.

_make_web_ftp_clickable_cb( array $matches )

Callback to convert URL match to HTML A element.

Description

This function was backported from 2.5.0 to 2.3.2. Regex callback for make_clickable().

Parameters

$matches

(Required) Single Regex Match.

Return

(string) HTML A element with URL address.

Source

File: wp-includes/formatting.php 

function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb( $matches ) {
	$ret = '';
	$dest = $matches[2];
	$dest = 'http://' . $dest;

	// removed trailing [.,;:)] from URL
	if ( in_array( substr($dest, -1), array('.', ',', ';', ':', ')') ) === true ) {
		$ret = substr($dest, -1);
		$dest = substr($dest, 0, strlen($dest)-1);
	}

	$dest = esc_url($dest);
	if ( empty($dest) )
		return $matches[0];

	return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"$dest\" rel=\"nofollow\">$dest</a>$ret";
}

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Related

Uses

Uses
Uses Description
wp-includes/formatting.php: _make_clickable_rel_attr()

Helper function used to build the “rel” attribute for a URL when creating an anchor using make_clickable().
wp-includes/formatting.php: esc_url()

Checks and cleans a URL.

Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
2.3.2 Introduced.