[RESOLVED] text links to <a> tags, but leave <a> tags

[jara06]

Hia.

As the title says, all I need to do, is convert (maybe multiple) text links (eg. http://bla.com or [url]ftp://bla.com[/url]) to plain simple html links (<a href="http://bla.com">http://bla.com</a>)

I have search the forums, but did not seem to find anything.
Could be done with some regex, but Im no expert at it 🙁

[leatherback]

function make_link($string)
 {
  $string = ' ' . $string;
  $string = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://.*?[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)#is", "\\1<a href=\"\\2\">\\2</a>", $string);
  $string = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[\w\-]+\.[\w\-.\~]+(?:/[^ \"\t\n\r<]*)?)#is", "\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\">\\2</a>", $string);
  $string = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([a-z0-9&\-_.]+?)@([\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)*[\w]+)#i", "\\1<a href=\"mailto:\\2@\\3\">\\2@\\3</a>", $string);
  $string = substr($string, 1);
  return $string;
 }

[jara06]

Sweet dude.
Cant figure it all out, but hopefully it comes with time.

Thx!