How would I do this?

[buzzt]

I want to have my PHP page replace any instance of <link> with <a href=&quot; and </link> with &quot;</a>&quot;. This is so that if a URL is typed in the text file, the PHP page will know to hyperlink it automatically. So,

<link>www.a.com</link>

would translate to

<a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.a.com&quot;[/URL] target=&quot;_blank&quot;>www.a.com</a>

I tried several variations of str_replace and preg_replace, but nothing was quite right. Any ideas?

 

[buzzt]

By the way, the text file I am referring to above is an include on the PHP page (in case this wasn't obvious). The text for the PHP page comes from this text file.

 

[vbkris]

u cannot directly use the replace method here. i want more infor on this like <link>abc.com</link> will this be on a seperate line or will it be along with some other text?



Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[buzzt]

Basically, it would look like

Blah blah blah <link>

www.a.com[code]</link>[/color] blah blah. Any text Any text, any text [COLOR=blue]<link>[code]www.b.com[code]</link>[/color] Any text, any text.

Anything inside the [COLOR=blue]<link> </link>[/color] would become an active link with the URL of that text.

 

[jamesp0tter]

$link = preg_replace(&quot;'<link>(.*?)</link>'&quot;,<a href=\&quot;\$1\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;>\$1</a>&quot;, $str);

i think that'll do it :]

 

[jamesp0tter]

oops

$link = preg_replace(&quot;'<link>(.*?)</link>'&quot;,<a href=\&quot;\$1\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;>\$1</a>&quot;, $str);

make it

$link = preg_replace(&quot;'<link>(.*?)</link>'&quot;,&quot;<a href=\&quot;\$1\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;>\$1</a>&quot;, $str);


missing &quot; there :x

works ;]

 

[vbkris]

jamesp0tter: nice name. it reminds me of a very famous character...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[Quasibobo]

I recently answered something simular:
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Don't eat yellow snow!

 

[buzzt]

Well, it seems to hide the <link> and </link> from view (although it is still there when you view source) but it does not make it a link with the same value.

 

[buzzt]

jamesp0tter's idea, that it...

 

[buzzt]

The one jamesp0tter left me writes the link, but at the end of the current domain. So if my web page is [URL unfurl="true"]www.a.com[/URL] and I want to make a link on my web page to [URL unfurl="true"]www.b.net,[/URL] I end up with a final link that looks like www.a.com/www.b.net

I finally found this at PHP.net. It works well. The only real difference is that it automatically makes all the links without having to add the <link> and </link>.

Oh well...

$text = preg_replace(&quot;/\b((http(s?):\/\/)|(www\.))([\w\.-]+)([\/\w+\.]+)\b/i&quot;, &quot;<a href=\&quot;http$3://$4$5$6\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;>$4$5$6</a>&quot;, $text);

 

[buzzt]

I figured out jamesp0tter's. It works like below...

$content = preg_replace(&quot;'<link>(.*?)</link>'&quot;,&quot;<a href=\&quot;http://\$1\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;>\$1</a>&quot;, $content);

 

[buzzt]

BTW...Thanks everyone.