Re: Create a link where http://

<? $mem = "Hello world! http://www.helloworld.com\n Hello world! ftp://ftp.server.com\n Hello world www.helloworld.com"; // code starts here $mem = preg_replace ("/\s+([http:|ftp:]{0,1}\S+\.\S+)/me", "' <A href=\"'. (ereg('^[http:|ftp:]','\\1') ? '\\1\">\\1</A>' : 'http://\\1\">http://\\1</A>')", $mem); print ($mem); ?> good luck, "Jesse Lawrence" <lawrence_jesse@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:20020729121233.44517.qmail@web11308.mail.yahoo.com... > Hello there, I'm putting together a message board, and > would like to automatically turn any instance of > http://whatever into a link, without requiring the > viewers to enter html. I'm thinking regex is probably > the way to go with this, but I'm not really seeing how > to do it. If someone could point me towards a > solution, it would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks very much, > Jesse Lawrence > http://soniceast.d2g.ca/jesse/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca