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string handling - autolink was created/last modified on Fri 19 Mar 2004 7:12 PM

this script will detect URLs in a string and automatically create a link to this URL.
it removes the query-string and shows only the top-level of the site linked to as text.
  
  <?
   
   $txt = '<p>this is a teststring with an url in it http://fundisom.com/phpsnippets/snip and its enough to be like that';
   $txt = preg_replace( '/(http|ftp)+(s)?:(\/\/)((\w|\.)+)(\/)?(\S+)?/i', '<a href="\0">\4</a>', $txt );
   
   echo $txt;
   
   ?>

learn more about some of the PHP functions used in this snippet: echo, link, preg_replace

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