[SOLVED] allowing hyperlinks

[Lambneck]

Hi on my blog when I submit a post containg a hyperlink such as: http://us.php.net/

It shows up on the post as text and not a clickable link.

How can I make it so it will be a clickable link?

[scvinodkumar]

$text = "Hello World. Today I visited http://www.google.com/ for the first time";

 

$text = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/(.*)\/)[\S]*/", "<a href=\\1>\\1</a> ", $text);

 

[Lambneck]

Hi, that almost works..  Its turning the text into link but changes what the link says. I want to retain the original structure of the link while at the same time making in a working hyper link.

[Lambneck]

Ok so I'm using the following and getting what I want except when i click the link it creates a <br /> at the end of the url in the address bar! ex: http://www.google.com/analytics<br />

 

Why could it be doing that? And how do I get rid of it?

 

$message = preg_replace('/((www|http:\/\/)[^ ]+)/', '<a href="\1">\1</a>', $row['message']);