Help with URLS/UBB

[Langridge]

Hi I'm having trouble with creating a hyperlink conversion, ie. the user enters [link=wwo.google.com]Google[/link] and it displays the word Google as a hyperlink.

The problem is it just adds the url on to the end of the current page, eg. www.mypage.com/www.google.com

Here is the code: $info = eregi_replace("\[link=(^\[]*)\\[/link\]","<a href=\"\1\" target=_blank>\2</a>",$info);

Can anyone help on this?

Cheers

[axo]

this won't work well with one single matcher - it gets too complicated and also too slow.

try four versions:

// first one for
[link]xxxx://www.domain.com[/link]
// second one:
[link]www.domain.com[/link] code.. (no xxxx:// prefix).
// third one:
[link=xxxx://www.domain.com]domain[/link] code..
// fourth one
[link=www.domain.com]description[/link] code.. (no xxxx:// prefix).

for each of these you'll need a different pattern.

[edit]
wah... it is always parsing the urls...
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