Automatically hyperlink links and email addresses entered in a textarea?

[izbryte]

If someone enters an email address or website into a textarea (which then goes to a mySQL database) is there a way to show those links as hyperlinks instead of plain old text when pulled back out ?

[micah1701]

you could do something like this:

 

<?php
$string = "here is a string of text including me@domain.com an e-mail address and http://www.somesite.com a web address";

$newString = "";

$mailArray = explode(" ",$string);

foreach ($mailArray as $word){

if(ereg('^([-a-zA-Z0-9.]+@[-a-zA-Z0-9]+(\.[-a-zA-Z0-9]+)+)*$', $word)){
  $newString.= "<a href=\"mailto:".$word."\">".$word."</a> ";
}elseif(substr($word,0,4) == "http"){
  $newString.= "<a href=\"".$word."\">".$word."</a> ";
}else{
  $newString.= $word." ";
}

}

echo $newString;

?>

 

EDIT: FIXED

 

[izbryte]

Thank you but I'm still a bit confused. Your code worked great when I tried it out as is but when I pull the text from the database it doesn't show the link. Am I doing something wrong?

 

Here's my code;

$contact = stripslashes(nl2br($row['contact']));
			 $newString = "";
			$mailArray = explode(" ",$contact);
			foreach ($mailArray as $word){

			 if(ereg('^([-a-zA-Z0-9.]+@[-a-zA-Z0-9]+(\.[-a-zA-Z0-9]+)+)*$', $word)){
			  $newString.= "<a href=\"mailto:".$word."\">".$word."</a> ";
			 }else{
			  $newString.= $word." ";
			 }
			}

			echo $newString;

[micah1701]

i edited my original post - it should work now 

[izbryte]

thanks so much for helping me but it still isn't working. do you think it could have something to do with the text?

Here is an example of what is being pulled from the database:

Please send resumes to:

My Compnay

Jane Doe

12345 My Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 12345

Email: me@mydomain.com

Phone: (123) 123-12345 | Fax: (123) 123-12345

[izbryte]

Can anyone help me??? PLEASE??!!