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Convert links into clickable hyperlinks
Description

A function to change an email address or URL into a clickable HTML hyperlink using eregi_replace.
The code





function makeClickableLinks($text) {



$text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',

'\\1', $text);

$text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)',

'\\1\\2', $text);

$text = eregi_replace('([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})',

'\\1', $text);



return $text;



}



// Usage



// Email address example

$text = "you@example.com";

echo makeClickableLinks($text);



echo "

";



// URL example

$text = "http://www.example.com";

echo makeClickableLinks($text);



echo "

";



// FTP URL example

$text = "ftp://ftp.example.com";

echo makeClickableLinks($text);



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