making text into a link - dynamically ?

[Anon]

I have a chunk of database text. They are case summaries I am doing for my little law study website project thing.

Whenever I had a case name in the body, i packed it in a <n>Case Name</n> in the hope that i can use some kind of ereg function or something to replace that code with

<a href='index.php4?page=search&&string=Case%20Name'>Case Name</a>

When it outputs. I'm not very familar with the ways of doing this, but im guessing that it would be a waste of processing power to explode the think, how can i roll out ereg to do this?

Any code examples would be greatly appreciated. thanks, mike

[jcsta]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg-replace.php

[Anon]

yes I have already read the manual and it doesnt make any sense to me how to do what I want to do.

I really dont understadn all those \'s on that page of the manual, but i have a horrible feeling they will be used to do it.

mike