<a href="http://www.link.com" title="http://www.link.com" target="_blank">http://www.link.com</a>.

function c2c_truncate_link ($url, $mode='0', $trunc_before='', $trunc_after='...') {
    if (1 hahahaha $mode) {
                $url = preg_replace("/(([a-z]+?):\\/\\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+).*/i", "$1", $url);
                $url = $trunc_before . preg_replace("/([A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\.(com|org|net|gov|edu|us|info|biz|ws|name|tv)).*/i", "$1", $url) . $trunc_after;
        } elseif (($mode > 10) && (strlen($url) > $mode)) {
                $url = $trunc_before . substr($url, 0, $mode) . $trunc_after;
        }
        return $url;
} //end c2c_truncate_link()

// mode: 0=full url; 1=host-only ;11+=number of characters to truncate after
function c2c_hyperlink_urls ($text, $mode='0', $trunc_before='', $trunc_after='...', $open_in_new_window=true) {
    $text = ' ' . $text . ' ';
    $new_win_txt = ($open_in_new_window) ? ' target="_blank"' : '';
        
    // Hyperlink Class B domains *.(com|org|net|gov|edu|us|info|biz|ws|name|tv)(/*)
    $text = preg_replace("#([\s{}\(\)\[\]])([A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+)\.(com|org|net|gov|edu|us|info|biz|ws|name|tv)((?:/[^\s{}\(\)\[\]]*[^\.,\s{}\(\)\[\]]?)?)#ie",
        "'$1<a href=\"http://$2.$3$4\" title=\"http://$2.$3$4\"$new_win_txt>' . c2c_truncate_link(\"$2.$3$4\", \"$mode\", \"$trunc_before\", \"$trunc_after\") . '</a>'",
        $text);

    // Hyperlink anything with an explicit protocol
    $text = preg_replace("#([\s{}\(\)\[\]])(([a-z]+?)://([A-Za-z_0-9\-]+\.([^\s{}\(\)\[\]]+[^\s,\.\;{}\(\)\[\]])))#ie",
        "'$1<a href=\"$2\" title=\"$2\"$new_win_txt>' . c2c_truncate_link(\"$4\", \"$mode\", \"$trunc_before\", \"$trunc_after\") . '</a>'",
                $text);

    // Hyperlink e-mail addresses
    $text = preg_replace("#([\s{}\(\)\[\]])([A-Za-z0-9\-_\.]+?)@([^\s,{}\(\)\[\]]+\.[^\s.,{}\(\)\[\]]+)#ie",
        "'$1<a href=\"mailto:$2@$3\" title=\"mailto:$2@$3\">' . c2c_truncate_link(\"$2@$3\", \"$mode\", \"$trunc_before\", \"$trunc_after\") . '</a>'",
        $text);

    return substr($text,1,strlen($text)-2);
} //end c2c_hyperlink_urls()