note 31849 deleted from function.preg-replace by sniper

Note Submitter: fie@myrealbox.com ---- in responce to sylvinus at lynucs dot com and for anyone that needs a replacement code here is yet another "improved" version i'm a newb to regular expressions but it works fine i belive i got the replacement string from the page that explains regular expressions on here which i also improved. // NOTE THAT IN THE BELOW CODE THE MATCHING STRINGS // ARNT SUPPOSED TO HAVE AN RETURNS (ENTER) BUT // PHP.NET REQUIRES ME TO KEEP MY LINE LENGTH SHORT // BE SURE TO REMOVE THEM IF YOU USE THIS CODE function makelinks($str){ $str = preg_replace( "/(\<\*)(link)(=)(['\"]?)(http:\/\/) ([^\"']*)(\\4)(.*)(\>)/siU", "<a href=\"http://\\6\" target=\"_blank\">\\8</a>", $str ); // you would use the above as fallows // <*link="http://xxx.com"SECKS!> $str = preg_replace( "/[^\"\'](?:^|\b)((((http|https|ftp):\/\/)|(www\.)) ([\w\.]+)([,:%#&\/?=\w+\.-]+))(?:\b|$)/is", " <a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>", $str ); $str = preg_replace( "/[^(mailto\:)](([\w\.]+)(@)([\w\.]+))/i", " <a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $str ); return $str; } the first replacement is for my whole StarML code i'm trying to develop. much like bbcode but yea anyways. so the second replacement is yours which i added [^\"\'] to the beginging to make sure you're not turning urls that are already links into links... the third replacement is for email addresses, on this i added [^(mailto\:)] to the begining as to make sure you're not linking email addresses that are already linked. I AM THE SILENT WIND OF DOOM WOOSH!