preg_replace

staffanolin

I've got a problem with this one.

It makes all links to real links.
The problem is that if I send the text "www.anywhere.com" it becomes like
<a href="www.anywhere.com">www.anywhere.com</a>
What I whant to do is put "http://" in front of the www. How do I do that.
It works good if I send "http://www.anywhere.com".

Thanks in advance!

/Staffan

Anon

I don't think there's really anything you can do in the preg_replace() statement to do this (I might be wrong), but you can accomplish this easily..

if (!ereg("http://", $sText) {
$sText = "http://" . $sText;
}
// Then your preg_replace() here...

What this does is checks the initial string for "http://"...if it does not include it, then it adds it at the beginning. This is going to reak havok on ftp:// and gopher:// addresses though 🙁

staffanolin

The thing is that I have it in a function to have long text parsed so it will show links as real links.

For example
parse("go here: www.anywhere.com");

Here is the function:
function parse ($sText) {
$sText = preg_replace("/((http:\/\/|https:\/\/|ftp:\/\/|mailto😐file:\/\/|telnet:\/\/|gopher:\/\/)|(www.))([\w.\/\?]+)/i", "<a href=\"\2\3\4\" target=\"_blank\">\2\3\4</a>", $sText);
return $sText;
}

Anon

Yeah, and if you modify your parse function to what I have you, it will do the same thing...except it will work for www.anywhere.com as well as http://www.anywhere.com, like you mentioned initially.

staffanolin

But if I use this
if (!ereg("http://", $sText) {
$sText = "http://" . $sText;
}
Will it not put http:// in the beginning of all strings.
So if I do:
parse("go here: www.anyhere.com")

it will become
"http://go here: www..."
before it gets to the preg_replace ?

/Staffan

Anon

Gotcha...my fault 🙁

staffanolin

No problem 🙂

sjokki

$sText = preg_replace($rSearch, $rReplace ,$sText);

This checks if \2 is empty:
strlen('\2')==0 ? 'http://' : '\2'

staffanolin

It worked.
Thank you very much!

/Staffan