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iamcal/lib\_autolink
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Adds anchors to urls in a text

v1.9(3y ago)631.3M↓33.9%22[7 issues](https://github.com/iamcal/lib_autolink/issues)3MITPHP

Since Apr 10Pushed 2y ago6 watchersCompare

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lib\_autolink - PHP HTML link formatting library
================================================

[](#lib_autolink---php-html-link-formatting-library)

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Find URLs in HTML that are not already links, and make them into links.

Looking to do this in JavaScript?

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
include('lib_autolink.php');

# simple mode
$html = autolink($html);

# truncate URLs longer than 20 characters
$html = autolink($html, 20);

# insert some magic into the  tags
$html = autolink($html, 30, ' class="mylink"');

# By default if the display url is truncated, a title attribute is added to the link, if you don't want this, add a 4th parameter of false
$html = autolink($html, 30, ' class="mylink"', false);

# link up email address
$html = autolink_email($html);

```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

If you have perl's [Test::Harness](http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Harness/) installed (you almost certainly do), you can run the tests using:

```
prove --exec 'php' t/*.t

```

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity53

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community26

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 80.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1147 days

Total

4

Last Release

1344d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a85bb39bd5cc12c0027f8242c6e42f95fc17c6a56761786410f3450c9855d0d5?d=identicon)[iamcal](/maintainers/iamcal)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

linkanchorautolink

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