Parsing url to html in posts

maxsslade

I'm the developer of the website www.urban-influence.com and I want to know how to turn a url to html for example:

http://www.urban-influence.com

or -

www.urban-influence.com

to add the a href links so users dont have to type all the <a href rubbish!

It uses this same technique on this forum using the 'automatically parse url' function, how can i do this in PHP?

Please help soon,

Max Slade

laserlight

have you tried searching this messageboard?
I'm sure there are threads on your topic somewhere

maxsslade

I have searched the site and no such luck! I really need help with this. I know you have to search before posting but it does not show anything useful!

trooper

OK here is a little function that could help ya

Simply call the function passing the required vals


function make_link($url, $linktext=false, $target=false, $extras=false) 
	{
	    return sprintf("<a href=\"%s\"%s%s>%s</a>",$url,
	        ($target ? ' target="'.$target.'"' : ''),
	        ($extras ? ' '.$extras : ''),
	        ($linktext ? $linktext : $url)
	    );
	}

HTH

maxsslade

Hey,

Sorry if I was unclear in my post, I want to be able to parse urls from fulltext in an MySQL database.

Say if i wrote:

bla bla bla bla www.google.co.uk bla bla bla http://www.urban-influence.com bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

i want the script to pick out these two urls and make them into seperate links to the written addreses.

If the full text variable was $message how could this be acheived?

alanjrobertson

I'd also be really interested in code for this if anyone has it. I've spent about half an hour searching and reading posts, but still can't get any closer 🙁

I run a site at www.accie.org and I'd like to help out users who don't know html by automatically recognising a www or http link and adding the <A> tags. I've already got an ereg expression in place to add in a target=_blank to existing HREF tags, but would like a way to automatically recognise and add them in where they don't exist. Ideally this would happen when the entry in being displayed without changing the database entry, so that when a member edits their entry there wouldn't be any HTML in it (I already replace <BR> with line breaks, etc.) Therefore I need a way to recognise if an <A> tag is there already and not add to it.

Thanks for any help!

Alan

maxsslade

This site uses the automatic parsing of url's. I want to do it on my own site.

I might download some forum scripts from hotscripts and have a look at the code to see if I can do anything with that.

If I get any answers I will post here ASAP.

Max (www.urban-influence.com)

trooper

Why not try the following

when someone wants to put in say an external hyperlink then get them to put [ELINK=location here] text to display[/ELINK]

then you simply have to look for [ELINK] and [/ELINK] (the princicple is the same for all html tags)

Of course you'll need to be clever with the script that parses it. And you'd need to write some pretty nifty regex's

Only a thought from the North of England

maxsslade

I have already had a system like that on my website, but unfortunatly nobody seems to want to do it like that. I had the classic and to finish but users refused to do it like that. Don't ask me why.

Still frustrating...