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Enable e-mail and web addresses in a string

Type:	code fragment
Added by:	russlndr
Entered:	21/12/2000
Last modified:	07/12/2000
Rating:	(12 votes)
Views:	10101

This function add HTML code to all urls in a string and return the string with clickable urls.

<?php
// Written by Fredrik Kristiansen (russlndr at online.no)

                            // and Albrecht Guenther (ag at phprojekt.de).

                            
 function html_activate_links($str) {

                              $str = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)', '<a href="\1" target="_blank">\1</a>', $str);

                              $str = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]+)', '\1<a href="http://\2" target="_blank">\2</a>', $str);

                              $str = eregi_replace('([_.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+.)+[a-z]{2,3})','<a href="mailto:\1">\1</a>', $str);

                              return $str;

                            }
?>

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