note 69185 deleted from function.preg-replace by bjori

Note Submitter: Paul N Reason: in docs ---- I needed a way to display a user-entered text field so that links and emails that they may have embedded in it would be displayed as HTML hyperlinks. Here's the function I came-up with... hope you find it useful. Paul N (savage_25 at yahoo.com) function MagicLinks ($str) { // Takes any input string and locates email addresses and web addresses within it, which are then turned into hyperlinks using HTML. $rtnStr = ' ' . $str . ' '; // add whitespace at start and end to handle links at beginning and/or end // find websites (with protocol) "http[s]:*" $rtnStr = preg_replace('/([\s\n])(https*:\S+)([\s$])/i','$1<a href="$2" target="_blank">$2</a>$3',$rtnStr); // find websites (without protocol, but have www) "www.*" $rtnStr = preg_replace('/([\s\n])(www\.\S+)([\s$])/i','$1<a href="http://$2" target="_blank">$2</a>$3',$rtnStr); // find emails: "*@*" $rtnStr = preg_replace('/([\s\n])([_a-z0-9-]+@[_a-z0-9-.]+)([\s$])/i','$1<a href="mailto:$2">$2</a>$3',$rtnStr); $rtnStr = substr($rtnStr,1,strlen($rtnStr)-2); // remove added whitespace at start and end return $rtnStr; }