Links, ereg?

[GirishGupta]

I want to search a string for each occurence of a link (

http://....)

and then put <a> tags around it. This is what I have:

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

echo MakeLink(&quot;This is an email address: email@email.com [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.microsoft.com/[/URL] fnsdf&quot;);

The only problem is that sometimes URLs are too long. So, I want to be able to change the URL that is displayed. For example: (semi-psuedo code)

$arrayvar = GetAllLinks($string); // An array

foreach($link as $arrayvar) // For each one of the links
{
  if (strlen($link)>=50) // if length of url is >= 50
  {
   $displaylink = substr($link, 0, 47).'...';  // take away last few chars and add '...'
  }
  else
  {
   $displaylink = $link; // length < 50
  }
 return &quot;<a href=\&quot;$link\&quot;>$displaylink</a>&quot;;
}

echo $the new string with the <a> tags and dots (...) if necessary;

Any ideas?

Girish Gupta

 

[GirishGupta]

I've worked it out:

function MakeLinks($link)
{
 if (strlen($link)>50) 
 {        
  $linktext = substr($link,0,47)."..."; 
 } 
 else 
 {   
  $linktext = $link;
 }
return &quot;<a href=\&quot;$link\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;>$linktext</a>&quot;;
}

 $var = preg_replace(&quot;/(?<!\S)((https?|ftp):\/\/\S+)/e&quot;, &quot;''.MakeLinks('\\1').''&quot;, $var);

echo $var;

Girish Gupta
girish@musicgoeson.com