Parsing a text for Links

jensos

I have a problem with changing urls to correct hyperlinks.
Right now I use this piece of code to change urls to links:
$text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^{<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a} href=\"\0\" target=_blank>\0</a>", $text);

But sometimes the links are quite long so I would like to have a text, with the hyperlink behind it.

like this: <a href="http://www.somedomain.de" target="_blank">some other text</a>

In the text itself it should look like this [some other text|http://www.somedomain.de] ... it might have some other seperators... if its easier with others...

Has anyone a help for this thing??

Best wishes...

theeper

If I understand you correctly, try this.

<?php
$text = "this is my string http://www.whatever.com whatever";
$text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^{<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a} href=\"\0\" target=_blank>[Some Other Text|\0]</a>", $text);
echo $text;
?>

This will turn this string ...
this is my string http://www.whatever.com whatever

into ...
<a href ="http://www.whatever.com" target="_blank">[Some Other Text|http://www.whatever.com</a>

jensos

Hi!

I guesss my english is a bit bad. So you might missunderstood me...

I have a text like this:
click here to come to the <homepage of gmx,http://www.gmx.de> and you will reach it.

This should be turned into
click here to come to the <a href="http://www.gmx.de" target="_blank">homepage of gmx</a> and you will reach it.

This is for a contentmanagementsystem to enable people using links... but if there is a common other solution for this, just tell me... :-)

theeper

Will it always be <homepage of xxx,http://www.whatever.com> ?

jensos

The text "homepage of xxx" can change...

but the border with the brackets and the "," will be the same!