formatting URLs and timestamp within <form> input field

[lentildal]

hello

i have some URLs in my database like

<a href=&quot;mailto:test@test.com&quot;>test@test.com</a>

and

<a href=&quot;

http://www.test.com&quot;

target=&quot;_blank&quot;>www.test.com</a>

i also have a timestamp(8) field like

20020101

i would like to display them in an html form, in input textboxes. does anyone know how to format them so they look a bit nicer?

like

test@test.com

and

http://www.test.com

and

01.01.2002
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[mcvdmvs]

You have to build a parser like the xml parser, but now for html.

you have to find the quotes and parse the info between them. That parsed info contains a lot of other stuff like html atrributes. You have to filter this and look for @ and http:// the words mailto you have to strip as well.

There is no PHP function that is capable of doing this for you, but i think on hotscripts.com you can find a parser that is already doing what you want. mcvdmvs
-- &quot;It never hurts to help&quot; -- Eek the Cat

 

[lentildal]

thanks
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