Creating a link automatically...

[Anon]

I am making a BB/Forum.

I would like to have it so that if somebody enters a link in their post(eg. http://www.phpbuilder.com) that is automatically makes that a link.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Travis

[baruch]

Check out in the code section, look for a regular expression to detect URLs and to convert them to links by using preg_replace.

[mia007]

It's so complicated ... try use something like:

$pattern = "/http:\/\/(\S+)/s";
$replace = "<a href=\"http://\1\">http:/\1</a>";
$input_text = preg_replace ($pattern, $replace, $input_text);