convert [url] to hyperlink?

[jonno946]

Hi there,

just a quick one really, tried searching the forum and no luck, so here goes...

i want to make it easy to add hyperlinks to text that is added to a database, for example:

click here[/ur]

How can i convert that into a html hyperlink?

ive sorted my bold, underline etc with a reg_replace and an expression (by searching forum), any1 know how to do the same with this?

Thanks

Jonathan

[drew010]

this should work.

$string = "text text text [url=http://www.yoursite.com]yoursite[/ur l] more text";

$url = preg_replace("/\[url=(.*)\](.*)\[\/url\]/", "<a href=\"\${1}\">\${2}</a>", $string);

[drew010]

here's a bit of code that will cover all 3 types of url's:
http://www.site.com
[url]http://www.site.com[/ur l]
title[/ur l]

where $string is your posted textbox.

$patterns = array("/\[url\](.*)\[\/url\]/", "/\s(f|ht)(tps?:\/\/)(\S*)/", "/\[url=(.*)\](.*)\[\/url\]/");
$replaces = array("<a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>", " <a href=\"\\1\\2\\3\">\\1\\2\\3</a>", "<a href=\"\\1\">\\2</a>");

$string = preg_replace($patterns, $replaces, $string);

[jonno946]

thanks for that mate, works a treat 🙂