note 84951 modified in function.ereg-replace by yannick

Here is the code I use to make links clickable. The code only works on xxxx:// (i.e. ftp://, http://, etc...). It does not work on www. because that is how I want it. The reason my code has an if condition is that it ignores html links and only modifies non-html urls. (see below) <?php function make_clickable($text) { if (ereg("[\"|'][[:alpha:]]+://",$text) == false) { $text = ereg_replace('([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])', '<a target=\"_new\" href="\\1">\\1</a>', $text); } return($text); } ?> My function ignores code like this: <a href="http://php.net"> php.net </a> But it would make this one click able: http://php.net --was-- Here is the code I use to make links clickable. The code only works on xxxx:// (i.e. ftp://, http://, etc...). It does not work on www. because that is how I want it. The reason my code has an if condition is that it ignores html links and only modifies non-html urls. (see below) <? function make_clickable($text) { if (ereg("[\"|'][[:alpha:]]+://",$text) == false) { $text = ereg_replace('([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])', '<a target=\"_new\" href="\\1">\\1</a>', $text); } return($text); } ?> My function ignores code like this: <a href="http://php.net"> php.net </a> But it would make this one click able: http://php.net http://php.net/manual/en/function.ereg-replace.php