How to make these [link][/link] type work....

[ernie]

I'm wanting to know how i can make the http and email codes that thay have on here work... i've tried exploding using the email and /email, but i can't get it to work... also i can't figure out how to go about having the url /url code.. and being able to put a link in, or name and link..

if someone has an easy to understand snippet of this exact code that would be great.. i just need to get an idea of how to go about it.

Thanks.. 🙂

[victordb]

Are you talking about how to program them or how to get it to work in the forum.

[ernie]

nooooooooo... i wanting to know how to program it... i know how to use it in the forum, i used to run one of these forums....

can someone please help me asap..

Thanks.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by ernie
nooooooooo... i wanting to know how to program it...

I'm sure if you look through the code libraries here and places like Zend.com, you'll find some material on this subject.

[nova]

Look up some information on regex. Then replace:

(url= becomes <A HREF=
URL stays the same
) becomes >
(/url) becomes </A>

the forum wont let me use square brakets, so i just used round ones. then just combine them and print it on the page. thats one way of doing it.

[ernie]

Yeah i did think about that, but i wanted to avoid it cause i thought there had to be a way better way.. but thanks.

ps.. i like your site.. 🙂

[nova]

Thanks, its not hard by the way. you want me to type it up quickly?

[victordb]

Do a Preg_replace and make it search for '[LINK=' and have it replace that with '<A HREF=' and then make it do a search for ']' and have it replace that with '>', then have it do a search from the ']' and make it go to the '[/LINK]' and have it replace that with 'Link</A>'

PS. Hope thats not too confusing its late at night I can no longer think straight.

[ernie]

i understand victordb.. it's cool. 🙂

yeah nova, if you wouldn't mind typing it up, that would be great thanks... 🙂

at the moment i'm working on a new version of micksworld.com, but when i get it done, i wanna put your link up cause your site is nice..

😃

[nova]

Thanks for the link 🙂

here is the code:

<?PHP

// set $msg to whatever your user types as a message, round brakets should be square, but vb doesnt let me use them.
$msg = "Visit my site! (url=www.razorefx.com)RazorEFX(/url)";

//replace [url= with <A HREF=
$msg=eregi_replace("[url=", "<A HREF=", $msg);

//replace ] with >
$msg=eregi_replace("]", ">", $msg);

//replace [/url] with </A>
$msg=eregi_replace("[/url]", "</A>", $msg);

//result is "Visit my site! <A HREF=www.razorefx.com>RazorEFX</A>

?>

If you allow your users type "'s, you will need to do some cleaning, but that is the basic code. (not sure if [ will work)

[ernie]

thanks heaps man... if you want to know when my site's gonna be up so you can check the link or whatever, you can contact me on msn: [e-mail], or just email me at the same address..

Thanks again..

[nova]

🙂 no problem

[ernie]

there is something wrong with the [

Warning: Unmatched [ or [^ in /blah/blah2/blah3/blahblah/go.php on line 52

That's the error i get.. line 52 is the one that says:

$msg=eregi_replace("[url=", "<A HREF=", $msg);

What's the problem and how can i fix this?

[ernie]

I've worked on it and came up with this:

//		Email Code		//
$code = ereg_replace("[email="."[_a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(\.[_a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)*\@"."[_a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(\.[_a-zA-Z]{1,3})+"."]", "<a href=\"mailto:\\0\">", $code);
$code = str_replace("[/email]", "</a>", $code);
$code = str_replace("[email=", "", $code);

//		URL Code		//
$code = ereg_replace("[frl="."]", "<a href=\"\\0\" target=\"blank\">", $code);
$code = str_replace("[/frl]", "</a>", $code);
$code = str_replace("[frl=", "", $code);

//		End Email & URL		//
$code = str_replace("]", "", $code);

There is one problem though... when i made the email one by itself it all worked fine, but now that there is the url one it doesn't work, how can i make then run without making changes to each other?

What is an easy way to fix this?

P.s. after where it says <a href="" target=""> in the href is meant to be \0.. same with in the email link. and i have called the url part frl for the reason that this forum changes it..

🙂

[Weedpacket]

Lessee: saying frl instead of url to avoid vB reformatting:

$text=preg_replace(
"#\[frl=([^]]*)\]((?:(?!\[frl\]).)*)\[/frl\]#i",
"<a href='\\1'>\\2</a>", $text);

And I'm not going to explain all that - it's already covered in the manual. The section titled "Pattern Syntax".

[ernie]

Thanks man, i'll give a try and post back on here.. Also thanks for the reference to the manual..

🙂