How to mimic Stack Overflow Auto-Link Behavior

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Try this out. The URL-matching regex pattern is from Daring Fireball.

/**
 * Replace links in text with html links
 *
 * @param  string $text
 * @return string
 */
function auto_link_text($text)
{
   // a more readably-formatted version of the pattern is on http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
   $pattern  = '(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:\'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))';

   $callback = create_function('$matches', '
       $url       = array_shift($matches);
       $url_parts = parse_url($url);

       $text = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST) . parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
       $text = preg_replace("/^www./", "", $text);

       $last = -(strlen(strrchr($text, "https://stackoverflow.com/"))) + 1;
       if ($last < 0) {
           $text = substr($text, 0, $last) . "&hellip;";
       }

       return sprintf(\'<a rel="nofollow" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1925455/%s">%s</a>\', $url, $text);
   ');

   return preg_replace_callback($pattern, $callback, $text);
}

Input Text:

This is my text.  I wonder if you know about asking questions on StackOverflow:
 Check This out http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/1925455/how-to-mimic-stackoverflow-auto-link-behavior

 Also, base_convert php function?
http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.base-convert.php#52450

http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.base-convert.php?wtf=hehe#52450

Output Text:

This is my text.  I wonder if you know about asking questions on StackOverflow:
 Check This out <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/1925455/how-to-mimic-stackoverflow-auto-link-behavior">stackoverflow.com/questions/1925455/&hellip;</a>

 Also, base_convert php function?
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.base-convert.php#52450">pt.php.net/manual/en/&hellip;</a>

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.base-convert.php?wtf=hehe#52450">pt.php.net/manual/en/&hellip;</a>

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