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make_clickable

string bytes2human(string string) -- Make URLs in a text clickable

Description

Adds <a href> tags to every mailto: or http:// url in string.

Example

<?php echo make_clickable('url: http://php.net email: mailto:noone@nowhere.com'); ?>

This will output:

url: <a href="http://php.net">http://php.net</a> email: <a href="mailto:noone@nowhere.com>noone@nowhere.com</a>

Source

Published under the terms of the BSD License


<?php
function make_clickable($text) { 
    $ret = eregi_replace( "([[:alnum:]]+)://([^[:space:])>]*)([[:alnum:]#?/&=])", "<a href=\"\\1://\\2\\3\" target=\"_blank\">\\1://\\2\\3</a>", $text); 
    $ret = eregi_replace( "(([a-z0-9_]|\\-|\\.)+@([^[:space:]]*)([[:alnum:]-]))", "<a href=\"mailto:\\1\">\\1</a>", $ret); 
    return $ret; 
}  
?>

Last updated: Sat Jun 14 20:02:45 CEST 2008