Re: Create a link where http://

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:12:33AM -0400, Jesse Lawrence wrote: > would like to automatically turn any instance of > http://whatever into a link, without requiring the > viewers to enter html. The mailing list archive: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=php.general Good search terms: hyperlink "regular expression" Yields this article: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=hyperlink+%22regular+expression%22+group:php.general&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=3A248B2C.13ED233C%40analysisandsolutions.com&rnum=2 Which has an excellent [shamelessly patting myself on the back] hyperlink regular expression for ereg*: "(http://|https://|ftp://|gopher://|news:|mailto:) ([[:alnum:]/!#$%&'()*+,.:;=?@~-]+)([[:alnum:]/!#$%&'()*+:;=?@~-])" Do note, if the last character of the URI is a "," or "." it assumes those are punctuation and leaves them off. Enjoy, --Dan -- PHP classes that make web design easier SQL Solution | Layout Solution | Form Solution sqlsolution.info | layoutsolution.info | formsolution.info 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 4015 7 Av #4AJ, Brooklyn NY v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409