Check if variable starts with ‘http’

by 
if (strpos($source, 'http') === 0) {
    $source = "<a href=\"$source\">$source</a>";
}

Note I use ===, not == because strpos returns boolean false if the string does not contain the match. Zero is falsey in PHP, so a strict equality check is necessary to remove ambiguity.

Reference:

http://php.net/strpos

http://php.net/operators.comparison

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