Code to automatically parse links in text?

PHP
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I’m looking to automatically parse links that appear within a block of text, and add the appropriate anchor tags.

The function I came up with is:

function parse_links($string){
	return preg_replace('#http://(.*?)\\s#i', '<a href="http://$1">$1</a>', $string);
}

Though I don’t know how robust this is. Any ideas, or criticisms of this approach? How do the major CMSes like vBulletin perform this type of parsing?

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