note 20801 deleted from function.preg-replace by sniper

Note Submitter: andreas.schempp@gmx.ch ---- to replace an url within a text with a link, use this $string = preg_replace("((http://|ftp://)? ([a-zA-Z1-9\-_\.]+\.[a-zA-Z1-9\-_]+\.[a-z]{2,3} (/[a-z\-/\._\?=&]+)?))", "<a href=\"\\1\\2\" target=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $string); the first preg_replace will search for url like http://www.php.net, ftp://something.php.net, www.php.net/manual/add-note.php?function.preg this will be replaced with a link $string = preg_replace("((href=\") ([a-zA-Z1-9\-_\.]+\.[a-zA-Z1-9\-_]+\.[a-z]{2,3} (/[a-z\-/\._\?=&]+)?))", "href=\"http://\\2", $string); if you have just www.php.net, it will create a link like href=\"www.php.net\". this will not work. for all this, we'll search for this (href=\"url) an replace it with href=\"http://url hope this will be my last note about this :) (visit ereg_replace...) as you can see, this feature is better than the one from php.net, because it will include non-http urls too. I'll make a feature-request about this, too.