RE: [PHP] http://

try this: $str = $s24; // this is the string you want to look at... $dst = '<a href="\\1">\\1</a>\\2'; foreach (array("http://", "mailto:", "telnet:", "news:") as $src) { $str = ereg_replace("(".$src."[^ ]*)( *)", $dst, $str); } echo $str; -----Original Message----- From: jtjohnston [mailto:taylorjo@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:03 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] http:// I'm looking for a function that will find occurences of urls in any given string and do this: http://www.nowhere.com/ becomes <a href="http://www.nowhere.com/">http://www.nowhere.com/</a> Could, should also look for mailto:someone@nowhere.com telnet:blah.blah or even news:blaj.blah Does such a thing exist? -- John Taylor-Johnston ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Collège de Sherbrooke: http://www.collegesherbrooke.qc.ca/languesmodernes/ Université de Sherbrooke: http://compcanlit.ca/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php