Re: Making URL's and emails live links?

Taken from Andrew Collington's String Class (http://www.phpclasses.org/) function convert_links($string) { $string = eregi_replace("((f|ht)tp:\/\/[a-z0-9~#%@\&:=?\/\._-]+)", "<a href=\"\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\1</a>", $string); //http $string = eregi_replace("([[:space:]a-z0-9()\"'\[~#%@\&:=?\._-])(www.[a-z0-9~#%@\&:=?\ /\._-]+)", "\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $string); // www. $string = eregi_replace("([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})","<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $string); // mail return $string; } if you want, you can take out target="_blank", but i find that generally it's better to keep this in for links posted by users. -jake "Tomba" <cntraltdel@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20030422154541.77674.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am looking for a way to make URL's and email addresses active links > when found in block of text. I am setting up a classified ads site and > would like to have the links generate automatically so advertizers > could enter their text and not have to code the links. > > Anybody got some code already made to share or can point me in the > right direction? > >