note 37824 modified in function.preg-replace by didou

I have been working to improve the expressions to turn text urls into html hyperlinks, and eliminate the problem with very long urls causing formatting problems, without resorting to a link called "link". I have written an expression to display only the host name whilst linking to the full url: $text = preg_replace( "(http|ftp)+(s)?:(//)((\w|\.|\-|_)+)(/)?(\S+)?i", "<a href=\"\\0\" target=\"_blank\">\\4</a>", $text); Thus: "More info can be found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php" will become "More info can be found at <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php"> www.php.net</a>" Hope this saves someone else re-inventing this wheel!! --was-- I have been working to improve the expressions to turn text urls into html hyperlinks, and eliminate the problem with very long urls causing formatting problems, without resorting to a link called "link". I have written an expression to display only the host name whilst linking to the full url: $txt = preg_replace( "/(http|ftp)+(s)?:(\\/\\/)((\\w|\\.)+)(\\/)?(\\S+)?/i", "<a href=\\"\\\\0\\">\\\\4</a>", $txt ); Thus: "More info can be found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php" will become "More info can be found at <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php"> www.php.net</a>" Hope this saves someone else re-inventing this wheel!! http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php