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remove HTML tags from href="" values

i have this script to find website addresses in a string and wrap <a> tags around it. however if the website address is at the end of the string it appends the tags to the href="" value like this:

<a href="http://www.site.com" title="">http://www.site.com</a>
<a href="http://site.com/contact.html" title="">http://site.com/contact.html</a>

my code:

<?php
function fcnConvertWebsiteAddress($data)
{
$data = preg_replace('/(https?\:\/\/\S*)/','<a href="${1}" title="">${1}</a>',$data);
return preg_replace('/(?<![\'"])([^\/])(www\.[^\s\,"]+)/','$1<a href="$2" title="">$2</a> ', $data);
}

$data = 'http://www.site.com'."\n";
$data .= 'http://site.com/contact.html'."\n";

$data = fcnConvertWebsiteAddress($data);

echo $data;
?>

administradores

<?php

$data = '<a href="http://www.site.com" title="">http://www.site.com</a>';

echo strip_tags($data);
?>

administradores

Also the html code hasn't the right format.

<a href="http://www.site.com" title="">http://www.site.com</a>

should look:

<a href="http://www.site.com" title="">http://www.site.com</a>

GEM100

administradores: he needs to do the opposite.

ellandrd: this code will work with in original string, and without:

<?php
function fcnConvertWebsiteAddress($data)
{
$data = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1" title="">$1</a>', $data);
return $data;
}
$data = 'http://www.site.com'."\n";
$data .= 'http://site.com/contact.html'."\n";
$data = fcnConvertWebsiteAddress($data);
echo $data;
?>

xberry

Why not simply like that:

<?php
function fcnConvertWebsiteAddress($data)
{
$data = strip_tags($data);
$data1 = preg_replace('/(https?\:\/\/\S*)/','<a href="$1" title="">$1</a>', $data);
return $data1;
}
$data = 'http://www.site.com'."\n";
$data .= 'http://site.com/contact.html'."\n";
$data = fcnConvertWebsiteAddress($data);

echo $data;
?>

xberry

excuse GEM100, obviously crossposted at same time as you did.
Definitely your solution is more elegant ; )

ellandrd

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GEM100

you solution doesnt work for formats such as www.site.com. it will only work if the website address has http:// in it...

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