email string to regular email

rahul_raj77

Hi
Can some one tell me, how to do this.
I have string with some email addresses in it, I want to change them to regular emails. String can any longer and email can be anywhere.
When I used the following code..all the newlines are lost....

any help on this...

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?
$str="
Mr. John Doe
president@rahul.org

Kathy
Administrative Assistant
adminassistant@rahul.org

Holly
Finance & Operations Director
financedirector@rahul.org

Myrna
Finance & Operations Assistant
financeassistant@rahul.org
";
echo(nl2br($str)."<br>");
$pattern="[ \n]";
$token_arr=split($pattern,$str);
for($i=0;$i<count($token_arr);++$i)
{
if(ereg("@",$token_arr[$i]))
{
$token_arr[$i]="<a href=\"mailto:$token_arr[$i]\">$token_arr[$i]</a>";
}
//echo($token_arr[$i]."-");
}
$str="";
for($j=0;$j<count($token_arr);++$j)
{
$str=$str . $token_arr[$j];
$str=$str . " ";
}
echo("<br>");
echo(nl2br($str));
?>

</body>
</html>

-Rahul

wizkid

Hi,

I hope this is what you want:

	function makeClickable($text) {
		// Modified by Nathan Codding - July 20, 2000.
		// Made it only work on URLs and e-mail addresses preceeded by a space, in order to stop
		// mangling HTML code.
		// The Following function was taken from the Scriplets area of [url]http://www.phpwizard.net,[/url] and was written by Tobias Ratschiller.
		// Visit phpwizard.net today, its an excellent site!
		// original make_clickable
	    $ret = eregi_replace(" ([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", " <a href='\\1://\\2\\3' target='_blank' target='_new'>\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $text);
		$ret = eregi_replace(" (([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]-]))", " <a href='mailto:\\1' target='_new'>\\1</a>", $ret);
		return $ret;
	}

wizkid

rahul_raj77

Hi wizkid,
I have tried your code. Still it doesn't its making me mad....can you please check the following code.

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?
$str="
Mr. John Doe
president@rahul.org

Kathy
Administrative Assistant
adminassistant@rahul.org

Holly
Finance & Operations Director
financedirector@rahul.org

Myrna
Finance & Operations Assistant
financeassistant@rahul.org
";

function makeClickable($text) {
	// Modified by Nathan Codding - July 20, 2000.
	// Made it only work on URLs and e-mail addresses preceeded by a space, in order to stop
	// mangling HTML code.
	// The Following function was taken from the Scriplets area of [url]http://www.phpwizard.net,[/url] and was written by Tobias Ratschiller.
	// Visit phpwizard.net today, its an excellent site!
	// original make_clickable
    $ret = eregi_replace(" ([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", " <a href='\\1://\\2\\3' target='_blank' target='_new'>\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $text);
	$ret = eregi_replace(" (([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]-]))", " <a href='mailto:\\1' target='_new'>\\1</a>", $ret);
	return $ret;
}

echo(makeClickable($str)."<br><br>");

</body>
</html>

Thansk for help.
Rahul

wizkid

Hi,

sorry, I think I found a mistake. Try following code:

$str="
Mr. John Doe
[email]president@rahul.org[/email]

Kathy
Administrative Assistant
[email]adminassistant@rahul.org[/email]

Holly
Finance & Operations Director
[email]financedirector@rahul.org[/email]

Myrna
Finance & Operations Assistant
[email]financeassistant@rahul.org[/email]

";


function makeClickable($ret) {
  // See 'User Contributed Notes' at the PHP manual:
  // [url]http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php[/url]
  // for more information
  $ret = preg_replace("/([\w]+:\/\/[\w-?&;#~=\.\/\@]+[\w\/])/i", "<A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"$1\">$1</A>", $ret);
  $ret = preg_replace("/([\w\.]+)(@)([\w\.]+)/i", "<a href=\"mailto:$0\">$0</a>", $ret);
  return $ret;
}

echo(makeClickable($str)."<br><br>");

wizkid

rahul_raj77

Hey it worked!! Kewl.

Though one small change was need.

echo(nl2br(makeClickable($str))."<br><br>");

Notice that I used nl2br so that the retrun string has the same format.

Thanks alot
Rahul.

rahul_raj77

Hi wizkid,
If you dont mine can you please explain me the following two lines,

$ret = preg_replace("/([\w]+:\/\/[\w-?&;#~=.\/@]+[\w\/])/i", "<A TARGET=\"_blank\" HREF=\"$1\">$1</A>", $ret);

$ret = preg_replace("/([\w.]+)(@)([\w.]+)/i", "<a href=\"mailto:$0\">$0</a>", $ret);

especially the pattern. Because thought its working I would like to konw what's going on here.

Thanks for your time and patience.
Rahul.