Extracting/Manipulating URLs

[Anon]

Can anyone help me out? I'm trying to extract URLs and re-format them like so...

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a>
Would become:

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a> - http://www.microsoft.com

Someone posted some code to do something very similar to this here:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/phplib-list/199912/0361.php
but it doesn't work and frankly I'm just not good enough (yet) to figure out how to mend the code.

Thanks.

[theslinky]

Hi,

Here is a code that will work:

$body = "<a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com/\">Yahoo!</a>";

$body = eregi_replace("<a href=\"((http|mailto|ftp):\/\/[^{[:space:]<>]{1,})\">((.*){2,})</a>",} "<a href=\"\1\">\3</a> - \1", $body);

print $body;

$body is the text that contains the link thingy. I did print $body to test it out and it works.

hope this helps,
-sridhar

[Anon]

Thanks a lot Sridhar!

You the man!