Extracting link form text.

[andreash]

I am working on a simple forum and I have problems with the abily for
the users to submit links.
I don't want them you use HTML tags to I want to create a link with just
the URL, this works fine when I just have the link (the code below).

But when i pull out a text field from my MySQL it displays the
text until the URL and then nothing.
Does someone have an idea how to fix this?

Thanx in advance!

<?

$text = "http://www.phpbuilder.com";

$lenk = ereg_replace("http://(.*)","<a href=$text target=_new>$text</a>",$text);

echo $lenk

?>

[znouza]

try:

$newstring=eregi_replace("(http://.*)\ ","<a href=\"\0\">\0</a>",$text);