Forgive me for my tiredness at this hour, but how'd you guys go about parsing a URL (e.g http://link/) and wrapping it into <a href="http://link/">http://link/</a> if it isn't already wrapped in and isn't a part of example ?

This will never be easy
You may search for "http://" with strpos(), then search for the next space character, then all between them is the url, then add <a href="...

I think this will be like this: not tested.

PHP Code:

$text = "all the text here, go to http://someurl/thefile.php ok."
$pos1=strpos($text, "http://" );
$pos2=strpos($text, " ", $pos1) ;
$link = substr($text, $pos1, pos2-$pos1) ;
$newtext = str_replace($link,'<a href="' . $link . '>' . $link . '</a>', $text );
echo $newtext ; 


Note: This is a quick script that need many fixes, like if in one situation the url will not be ended with a space,...

and of course it will "break" if the filename / url has spaces in it.

That failed terribly

So ? Someone have another solution ?

PS: I forget ";" at the end of the first line, and "$" for "$pos2" in line four, now fixed here, try again.

PHP Code:

$text = "all the text here, go to http://someurl/thefile.php ok.";
$pos1=strpos($text, "http://" );
$pos2=strpos($text, " ", $pos1) ;
$link = substr($text, $pos1, $pos2-$pos1) ;
$newtext = str_replace($link,'<a href="' . $link . '>' . $link . '</a>', $text );
echo $newtext ; 


This will works for the first url, if it's ok, I will make it do so for all urls in the text..

and of course it will "break" if the filename / url has spaces in it.

Spaces in urls are always replaces with %20 ( or something like that)

http://www.google.com/file1.html
http://www.google.com/file 1.html

Like in this forum, " it will "break" if the filename / url has spaces in it. "

Yep,
so the challenge is on to find a regular expression that doesn't

BB Code Input:

http://www.testlink.org/

test test

test

HTML Output (firefox source viewer):

<p><a>http://www.testlink.org/</a></p>

<p><a></a> href="http://www.testlink.org"&gt;test test</p>

<p>test</p>