Link Parser Help

Wraith2700

Hello!
I am making my own forum, it was going well tell I started to make the code to make it so you could type thingy, I know there is some way to make it replace [url="$a-z^{"]$a-z^[end} the url] with <a href="\1">\2<a/> or something like that.

mykg4orce

phpBB uses these following methods:

	// Patterns and replacements for URL and email tags..
	$patterns = array();
	$replacements = array();

// [url]xxxx://www.phpbb.com[/url] code..
$patterns[0] = "#\[url\]([a-z]+?://){1}(.*?)\[/url\]#si";
$replacements[0] = '<!-- BBCode u1 Start --><A HREF="\1\2" TARGET="_blank">\1\2</A><!-- BBCode u1 End -->';

// [url]www.phpbb.com[/url] code.. (no xxxx:// prefix).
$patterns[1] = "#\[url\](.*?)\[/url\]#si";
$replacements[1] = '<!-- BBCode u1 Start --><A HREF="http://\1" TARGET="_blank">\1</A><!-- BBCode u1 End -->';

// [url=xxxx://www.phpbb.com]phpBB[/url] code.. 
$patterns[2] = "#\[url=([a-z]+?://){1}(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#si";
$replacements[2] = '<!-- BBCode u2 Start --><A HREF="\1\2" TARGET="_blank">\3</A><!-- BBCode u2 End -->';

// [url=www.phpbb.com]phpBB[/url] code.. (no xxxx:// prefix).
$patterns[3] = "#\[url=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#si";
$replacements[3] = '<!-- BBCode u2 Start --><A HREF="http://\1" TARGET="_blank">\2</A><!-- BBCode u2 End -->';


$message = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $message);