Re: putting a url in an anchor tag

Here's a function that was sent to me in response to me needing the exact same thing: function pb_t2h_URLMarkup ($Text, $StyleClass = '', $Target = '') {

        if ($StyleClass != '')
                $ClassS = " class='$StyleClass'";
        else
                $ClassS = "";

        if ($Target != '')
                $TargetS = " target='$Target'";
        else
                $TargetS = '';

        /* Match for URL strings (the part after 'http://'). Only does quite
         * loose matching. Handles URL parameters and urlencoded chars (%xy).
         * '&' chars have to be treated specially because htmlentities()
         * converts them to '&' */
        $URLSMatch = '([\w\.\/~\?%=\-\&]|&)+)';

        $Patterns = array ('/([^"\']|\A)(http:\/\/' . $URLSMatch . '/',
                           '/([^"\'])(ftp:\/\/[\w\.\/~\-]+)/',
                           '/([^"\'\w-\.\/]|\A)(www\.' . $URLSMatch . '/',
                           '/([^"\'\w\.~\-=]+@[\w\.~\-]+)/');

        $Replacements = array ("\\1<a href='\\2'$ClassS$TargetS>\\2</a>",
                               "\\1<a href='\\2'$ClassS$TargetS>\\2</a>",
                               "\\1<a href='http://\\2'$ClassS$TargetS>\\2</a>",
                               "<a href='mailto:\\1'$ClassS>\\1</a>");

        return preg_replace ($Patterns, $Replacements, $Text);

} At 10:35 AM 3/14/2002 -0600, Tyler Longren wrote:

Hello, I've been playing with this since lastnight. I have a string of text...Example: "This is a test string of test, please go to http://www.google.com now." I need something that will catch the "http://www.google.com" part, and make into a link instead of just plain text. Does anyone know how I should go about doing this? I've looked through a few code repositories, but haven't found anything. Thanks, Tyler -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php