Showing <[e-mail]> correctly in HTML email

[orangehairedboy]

I have written a web-based email system for accessing and processing mail from a POP3 server. I've run into a little problem with email addresses in HTML email which are written as <[e-mail]>. The browser thinks it's a tag, but doesn't understand it, so doesn't display it. And I can't just replace all "<" with "&lt;" because then all HTML email won't display.

Has anyone ever come up with a solution to this? Maybe using RegEx to look for an email address in < > tags???

Any help is appreciated!

Lewis

[Xoid]

try using

<?php
  print htmlentities("<[e-mail]>");
?>

[orangehairedboy]

Nah...that won't work because I'm dealing with HTML email.

Let's use "<b><[e-mail]></b>" as an example. If I were to use htmlentities() I would get "&lt;b&gt;&lt;[e-mail]&gt;&lt;/b&gt;".

I need code which will look at the contents of each tag, determine if it's an email address (prolly by looking for the @), and output "<b>&lt;[e-mail]&gt;</b>".

Ideas?

[darkke]

try something like:

$mailtags; //variable holding your tags

$tags = split(',',$mailtags); 
//if necessary, change the first parameter of split() from a comma
//to whatever character your tags are delimited by.

foreach($tags as $tag)    {
     if(eregi("@",$tag))    {
        $tag = eregi_replace("<","<b>&lt;",$tag);
        $tag = eregi_replace(">","&gt;</b>",$tag);
}