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Reg Exp to replace hyperlinks


macgyver

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Hi I'm after some help to convert web addresses in some text body to hyperlinks.

So a user may enter [a href=\"http://www.phpfreaks.com\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.phpfreaks.com[/a] into a text area. When the text is then displayed I want to go through and convert these to hyperlinks. Ideally would do it if the user missed off the http:// and typed www.phpfreaks.com.

I guess I need a reg expression but I need pointing in the right direction

Cheers

Mac
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Thanks for that. However, I couldn't get it to work. I managed to find the following which works like a dream.

[code]preg_replace("/[^\"'=]((http|ftp|https):\/\/[^\s\"']+)/i", "<a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>", $text);[/code]
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