Re: finding an URL in a code and creating a hypertext link with this URL

Hi Denis: Denis Bourdon wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a plain text which contains URLs and I'd like to display them with a > link: > The following string: > http://www.php.net > > would be replaced with: > <a > href="http://www.php.net">http://www.php.net</a> Here's the regular expression I use $Val = eregi_replace("(http://|https://|ftp://|gopher://|news:|mailto:)([[:alnum:]/!#$%&'()*+,.:;=?@~-]+)([[:alnum:]/!#$%&'()*+:;=?@~-])", "<a href=\"\\1\\2\\3\">\\1\\2\\3</a>", "$Val"); URI's / URL's starting with a known transport scheme are automatically converted to hyperlinks: http://, https://, ftp://, gopher://, news:, mailto: This process properly recognizes URI's which use characters authorized by RFC 2396: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, !#$%&'()*+,-./:;=?@_~ If illegal characters are found, the hyperlink stops at the preceeding character. Also, while "." and "," are valid characters, when they appear at the end of a URI, we consider them punctuation rather than part of the URI. If you have a URI ending with such, escape them using "%46" or "%44". Enjoy, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y More than just answers. Solutions. (SM) http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/ 4015 7 Av #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409