Auto detecting urls inside text - urls have some arabic letters

i do not have a url in a variable i have it inside a text !!

If you would rather not overide the helper, you can can replace the non-ASCII characters with urlencoded versions.

PHP Code:

function urlencode_first($match)
{
    return urlencode($match[0]);
}

function urlencode_utf8chars($text)
{
    return preg_replace_callback('/[^\x20-\x7f]/', 'urlencode_first', $text);
}

// then in your controller
$this->load->helper('url');
$url = "https://soundeals.com/community/tag/";
$tag = "ميكروفون";
$text = "text before $url$tag and after";
echo urldecode(auto_link(urlencode_utf8chars($text))); 


which produces the following html

Code:

text before <a href="https://soundeals.com/community/tag/ميكروفون">https://soundeals.com/community/tag/ميكروفون</a> and after

You could even wrap last line in its own function for brevity if you prefer.