On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:51:16 +0400, Nadim Attari wrote: > Hello, > > I have some text in a table... the text contains hyperlinks (but not > html coded, i.e. plain "Some text...http://www.something.com";) > > When i retrieve these texts from the table, i want the hyperlinks to > become clickable, i.e. <a href etc added automatically. > > "Some text...<a > href="http://www.something.com";>http://www.something.com</a>" > > I know this sould be done using Regex, but i don't know regex. > > Any help (links, examples, etc) > > Thanks > Nadim Attari How's this: <?php // $s contains the entry from the table. // Non-strict url matching. $s = preg_replace('/(http:\/\/[^\s]+)/i', "<A href=\"$1\">$1</A>", $s); ?> This is very non strict. Anything starting with http:// until the next whitespace (\s) is clickable. You might want to put a more strict rule in there, but it depends on the text your searching in. Note that above code does not work when an url is at the end of a line, and followed by a period (.). Ivo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
