striplashes and carrying links

[shadiadi]

hi i am currently using this format to carry the message so it can be posted keeping its original paragraph format. But it doesn't carry url links so they are active links.

$message = stripslashes(nl2br($_POST["message"]));

is there another format that can carry the message and urls as links?

[dagon]

dont strip the slashes

[shadiadi]

hi doesn't work when there is http://www.website.com in the message it still only posts it as normal text.

[leatherback]

Of course.. PhP does not know what you want to do. You will need to replace the occurences of a web address 'yourself' if you want active links in your page. Something like:

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