function linkify(inputText) {
            var replacedText, replacePattern1, replacePattern2, replacePattern3;

            //URLs starting with http://, https://, or ftp://
            replacePattern1 = /(\b(https?|ftp):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/gim;
            replacedText = inputText.replace(replacePattern1, '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>');

            //URLs starting with "www." (without // before it, or it'd re-link the ones done above).
            replacePattern2 = /(^|[^\/])(www\.[\S]+(\b|$))/gim;
            replacedText = replacedText.replace(replacePattern2, '$1<a href="http://$2" target="_blank">$2</a>');

            //Change email addresses to mailto:: links.
            replacePattern3 = /\w+@[a-zA-Z_]+?(?:\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})+/gim;
            replacedText = replacedText.replace(replacePattern3, '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>');

            return replacedText;
        }