Parsing a text for urls with special-text

jensos

Hi!

I have a problem with parsing a text. I dont want to know how to parse a text an change all emails and links into clickable links. I found this thousands of times as a snippet.

I have to change a text like this into an url...
[ url]Home of ozzy|http://www.ozzyosbourne.com/[/url]

ofcourse without the space at the first word!
Additionally it should convert normal urls into clickable urls...
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you folks!

leatherback

Hi,

You could search your text (using ereg I suppose) for the pattern ....
Get that string, and then explode by |. The resulting string vars can then be used to create a link.

As for normal urls: Search for a string starting with [url]http://,[/url] and read the whole string untill you find a space (Basically you look for [url]http://[/url] .... <space>. Get that var, and create the link. But you wrote you know how to do that, right?

pyro

Rather than ereg (POSIX extended), use PCRE (Perl compatible):

<?PHP
$str = "&#91;url&#93;Home of ozzy|http://www.ozzyosbourne.com/&#91;/url&#93;";
$str = preg_replace("/\[url\](.*?)\|(.*?)\[\/url\]/i", "<a href=\"$2\">$1</a>", $str);
echo $str;
?>

jensos

Thanks folks!
This works fine!
But the problem is: I have a text, which is beeing parsed by a script which changes urls to clickable urls:

$text = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^{<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a} href=\"\0\" target=_blank>\0</a>", $text);

how can I change this, so that it will noch affect existing links made by the other script?
I should not affect links which are between <> or ""...

Thanks!

jens