note 88265 deleted from function.preg-replace by danbrown

Note Submitter: lassial at iki dot fi ---- In attempt to automatically convert URLs to hyperlinks I adopted the solution offered by tal at ashkenazi dot co dot il However, I ran into problem of tackling previously insert HTML line breaks, which could be solved by <?php $changeThese=array("<br>", "<br />", "<br/>"); $string = str_replace($changeThese," \n<br /> ",$string); // so there is whitespace before running $in=array('((?:https?|ftp)://\S+[[:alnum:]]/?)si', '((?<!//)(www\.\S+[[:alnum:]]/?))si'); $out=array('<a href="$1" >$1</a> ', '<a href="http://$1" >$1</a>'); return preg_replace($in,$out,$string); ?> Known issue is that if there are existing HTML formatted hyperlinks, they will break.