Need help with hyperlinks code

[marketinggallery]

Currently I'm using the following code, which allows a url to be clickable:

 

<?=

makeClickableLinks(str_replace(chr(13),strip_tags($rshome["article_summary"],")));?>

 

 

This is the section from the function page:

 

function makeClickableLinks($text) {

  $text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)','<a href="\\1" target=_blank>\\1</a>', $text);

  $text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)','\\1<a href="http://\\2" target=_blank>\\2</a>', $text);

  $text = eregi_replace('([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})', '<a href="mailto:\\1">\\1</a>', $text);

  return $text;

}

 

When I type out text to include a hyperlink, such as

<a href= "http://www.mysite.com/thispage.htm">display text</a> it will NOT display the clickable link.

 

How do I modify the php/html to allow it to read the link properly?

 

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you.

[amites]

are you typing in the full link HTML or just the URL?

 

seems to want just the URL,

 

could also have something to do with the <? vs <?php

<? does not execute PHP unless told to specifically on the server

[Cosizzle]

Try putting

</a>

instead of

</url>

[marketinggallery]

I am typing out the full html string, since I want the clickable text to display different then the actual link.

 

I checked the code and I do have <?php at the top of the function.

 

It also has <a> and </ a> shown correctly.  Looks like the code defaulted to </url> when I posted it here...

 

If I type any url, it becomes clickable okay, just not when I type in an <a href> string like my example above.

 

Any other suggestions?

 

[Northern Flame]

Try putting

</a>

instead of

</url>

 

this forum automatically puts </url>

instead of </a>, nothing to do with his code....

 

As for your code,

im looking but I dont see a problem,

ill keep on trying to come up with a solution though

[redarrow]

Have a look and try............

<?php

$l=array("www.html.com","http://www.msn.co.uk","www.fool.com","http://www.google.co.uk","http://www.yahoo.com");
foreach($l as $link){

if(PREG_MATCH("/^(http)(\:\/\/(w){3}\.)[a-zA-Z](.?)[a-zA-Z]{2,3}/",$link)){


echo "<font color='blue'>Link correct $link </font> <br><br>";

}else{

echo "<font color='red'>link incorrect $link </font><br><br>";
}

echo "<a href='$link'>$link</a><br><br>";
}
?>

[marketinggallery]

RedArrow-

 

I tried your code above, no luck.

 

The site wouldn't display correctly and it didn't recognize the links shown in your example.

 

It's got to be the function string and how it's reading and interpreting the url / html data

 

Any other ideas are appreciated.  Thanks much!

[marketinggallery]

Can anyone else offer a solution for my problem?

[marketinggallery]

I found a solution from someone at ScriptLance.com

 

Thanks to all who offered to help!