I would like to implement the following feature onto my site. When a user posts something, he is also allowed to include one link, which is a link to a picture. Imagine a user posts something like this:
Hello look at this awesome picture. It is hilarious isn't it?
http://www.google.com/image.jpg
Then that text should be converted to:
Hello look at this awesome picture. It is hilarious isn't it?
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/image.jpg">
<img src="http://www.google.com/image.jpg" alt=""/>
</a>
So I need some php script that searches through the text for links and if it finds a link, checks that it links to a picture. It also needs to be able to recognize links that do not start with http, and also links that start with https.
How would you do that?
Thanks a lot :)
Dennis