Link bbCode ([URL]

[peter_anderson]

I'm coding a php forum script mod, but I do not know how to do the URL bbCode.

 

I want to do two versions:

 

1) Example:

[url]http://example.com[/url]

 

The script should search for [url ] (space added to stop the board parsing it) and replace it with:

<a href="URL" target="_blank" title="External link">URL</a>

 

2) The script should look for all URLs (http://) and replace it with:

<a href="URL" target="_blank" title="External link">URL</a>

 

I'm thinking that preg_replace and regex would do, but I'm unsure as to how.

 

Can anyone advise?

Thanks in advance.

[merylvingien]

$simple_search = array( 
'/\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is',
); 

$simple_replace = array( 
'<a href="$1" target="_blank" title="$1">$1</a>',
);

$post = preg_replace ($simple_search, $simple_replace, $post);

echo "$post";

[peter_anderson]

Thanks merylvingien