PHP: How to use the Twitter API's data to convert URLs, mentions, and hastags in tweets to links?

Question

I\'m really stumped on how Twitter expects users of its API to convert the plaintext tweets it sends to properly linked HTML.

Here\'s the deal: Twitter\'s JSON API sends

Answer 1

Regarding vita10gy's helpful json_tweet_text_to_HTML(), I found a tweet that it could not format correctly: 626125868247552000.

This tweet has a nonbreaking space in it. My solution was to replace the first line of the function with the following:

$return = str_replace("\xC2\xA0", ' ', $tweet->text);

Performing a str_replace() on   is covered here.