Laravel allow links on message - laravel

Question

I need allow links in messages, when user send message. How I can do this?
#foreach($mess as $message)
<li data-mid="{{ $message->id }}">
<div class="row margin-left-none margin-right-none">
<div class="col-md-2 padding-right-none">
<div class="avatar-user text-center">
<img src="{{ $message->sender->avatar }}" alt="$message->sender->name">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-10 padding-left-none">
<div class="user-name">
<span>{{ $message->sender->name }}
#if(Helper::getOnlineUser($message->sender->id))
<i data-toggle="tooltip" title="Онлайн" class="material-icons online">fiber_manual_record</i>
#else
<i data-toggle="tooltip" title="Оффлайн" class="material-icons offline">fiber_manual_record</i>
#endif
<span class="date float-right">{{ $message->created_at->formatLocalized('%H:%m') }}</span></span>
</div>
<div class="message">
{{ $message->body }}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</li>
#endforeach
This is view of messages.
How I can allow links?
Example: http://example.com in messages =>
http://example.com
I need {!! $message->body !!} ? Or How?
In controller:
$mess = Chat::conversations($conversation)->for($user)->getMessages($limit, $request->page);
I use this package: https://github.com/musonza/chat

Answer 1

There are built in PHP functions to handle this:
<div class="message">
{!! strip_tags($message->body, '<a>') !!}
</div>
Where the second argument is your whitelist.
This has the following advantages:
You're not messing with regex
You're still using blade {!!!!}
You're using well tested code dev'ed by the core team

Answer 2

You can do it by using following php function in your blade,
<?php
function getDataWithURL($text){
// The Regular Expression filter
$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
// Check if there is a url in the text
if(preg_match($reg_exUrl, $text, $url)) {
// make the urls hyper links
echo preg_replace($reg_exUrl, "".$url[0]." ", $text);
} else {
// if no urls in the text just return the text
echo $text;
}
}
?>
You just need to add this code in your blade file and then you can check and replace the links in your text like this,
<div class="message">
<?php getDataWithURL($message->body);?>
</div>
I hope you will understand.