Hello,

I work on content management system where a user can post articles on the web. I have php4, mysql4 and IIS

The question is: how is it possible to let user not only insert plain text, but also insert links to web references?
Similar to the way when I submit this http://p2p.wrox.com it should become highlighted as a link.

Thank you,

Try this:

<?php

//get what the user posted
$message = $_POST['message'];

//split the words into an array
$words = explode(" ",$message);

for($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++)
{
    if(substr($words[$i],0,7)=="http://" || substr($words[$i],0,8)=="https://")
        $words[$i] = "<a href='$words[$i]'>$words[$i]</a>";
}

HTH,

Snib

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Thank you,
It works.

Yes, it works as it highlights the address.
But, there is a problem now when there is more that one link in the text field.
For example:

Input:
LIST OF SOURCES:
1. http://www.media-awareness.ca
2. See info at http://p2p.wrox.com

Print:
LIST OF SOURCES:
1. http://www.media-awareness.ca<BR< a> /> 2. See info at http://p2p.wrox.com<BR< a> /> (with one link to both addresses)

My code is:
//I take text from db field
$fieldg = nl2br(htmlspecialchars($row['field_g']));

$words = preg_split("/[\s,]+/",$fieldg);
for($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++)
{
    if(substr($words[$i],0,7)=="http://" || substr($words[$i],0,8)=="https://"){
       $words[$i] = "<a href='$words[$i]'>$words[$i]</a>";
        }
}
//convert array to string
$strbody7 = implode(" ", $words);
    echo $strbody7;


I tried to remove nl2br(htmlspecialchars from line
$fieldg = nl2br(htmlspecialchars($row['field_g']));

then it gives me the following unformatted output:
LIST OF SOURCES: 1. http://www.media-awareness.ca 2. See info at http://p2p.wrox.com


Could you please help to solve this problem with correct formatting output of links?

Thank you,

That's weird.... try putting the nl2br function after the link-creating code.

Not sure if this will change anything....

HTH,

Snib

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