URL from text

[Anon]

Ok, I am stumped. Maybe someone out there can help...

$var1="this is my website, located at http://www.mywebsite.com. Thank you for visiting."

what can i do to change it to

"this is my website, located at <a href=http://www.mywebsite.com>http://www.mywebsite.com</a>. Thank you for visiting."

I can not figure this out... I suck at regular expressions, and i'm sure this one is a doozie.

[van__]

A doozie it is not, very simple actualy.
I just hope it inspires you to get past your fear of the mighty regex 😉

<?
$myText = "I have a website at http://www.somesite.com/path/file.html";
$myText = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/+.[^\s]+)/i",'<a href="\1">\1</a>', $myText);
echo $myText;
?>

[van__]

LOL,
I actually bothered to click the link I created from that example I gave you, it went to an actual page.

Go figure.