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Changing To A Link (PHP)

Started by Hip Hop Artist, Sep 03 2007 12:12 PM

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#1 Hip Hop Artist

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Posted 03 September 2007 - 12:12 PM

For my news section of my site I need a script that will take any urls that were typed into the body of text and turn them into links. Or that I can put a word right after the url and it will make whatever word i put into a link to the url i typed.

Edited by Hip Hop Artist, 03 September 2007 - 12:12 PM.

#2 Balor

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Posted 03 September 2007 - 12:22 PM

What you want is something like a bbcode system, you can find some nice tutorials about exaclty this. Also check str_replace and preg_replace in php.net function list! Next thing would be regular expressions.

Edited by Balor, 03 September 2007 - 12:24 PM.

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Posted 03 September 2007 - 01:44 PM

A solution would be to search your text for 'http://' or even 'www' and to let php select the sentence until a space: ' ' is found. And put that in a <a> tag.

To search a text for words/characters, refer to:
http://be2.php.net/m...tion.strpos.php and http://be2.php.net/m...tion.strstr.php
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