How to make url as a clickable link using echo fn or other fns 1

[amirkhansemail]

Hello,

My problem is if i say for eg:

echo "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.cnn.com";[/URL]

it shows as plain text not as a link on the browser, so the question is how to make it appear as a clickable link WITHOUT using anchor href. Because on my site people are filling textarea box with the some other text, but when they enter a link as part of the text it just shows as plain text.

is there a function in php with the help of which we can make an http tag a link?

Your help is highly appreciated.

Thanks and best regards,
Amir Khan

 

[vacunita]

You'll have to search for the strings, and then interpolate the href tags on the fly to make it a link. Browsers will not render a link unless it is surrounded by <a href> tags.


Using some string functions such as preg_replace, or preg_match you should be able to add the required html to make the links.

In the php online manual page for the preg_replace() function one of the user supplied notes has a function to do what you want. Click here for the preg_replace() entry in the php online manual


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