Re: Question about ereg_replace and urlencode...

Many thanks Stut The problem is that the rest of the $str is actually a big post from a blog, which will have many other text and info apart from the URL, and i don't want to urlencode everything in there! Venky On 02/10/2007, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote: > Venkatesh M. S. wrote: > > Hello! > > > > i am trying to make links clickable on a page. I would like to > > urlencode the URL so that it is well passed to a redirect.php file, > > which would do somethings and then also do a meta http refresh > > > > I am trying to use a function like the following, but it doesn't work. > > I would like to apply urlencode on the link that is there in $str, so > > that i have the link to redirect.php?url=<<urlencoded str>> > > > > With the following, "1" gets hardcoded in my link! How do i urlencode it please? > > > > Any thoughts would help > > > > Regards > > > > Venky > > > > <?php > > > > $str='blah blah > > > > http://www.someserver.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=EDITS&amp;file_name=edit3%2Etxt&amp;counter_img=3 > > blah blah'; > > > > > > function b_make_clickable ($str) { > > $str = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)', > > '<a > > href="http://www.myserver.com/redirect.php?url=' . > > urlencode(1) . > > '" target="_blank">\1</a>', $str); > > $str = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)', > > '\1<a > > href="http://www.myserver.com/redirect.php?url=http://' . > > urlencode(2) . '" target="_blank">\2</a>', $str); > > $str = > > eregi_replace('([_.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[a-z]{2,3})','<a > > href="mailto:\1">\1</a>', $str); > > return $str; > > } > > > > ?> > > That would be the bit where you use urlencode(1) to put the URL into the > URL. I think you want urlencode($str) instead. > > -Stut > > -- > http://stut.net/ >