Automatically parse text to link in PHP

Question

So, what i want is to parse normal text to link

but if the text is link then it should not be parsed again

for example: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">http://stackoverflow.com</a> should not be parsed again to be <a href="http://stackoverflow.com"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com">http://stackoverflow.com</a></a>

That's all

What does the text look like? Is it HTML or is it plain text to start off with? — Husman, Feb 26 '13 at 10:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 11:31

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One solution is to strip out all the HTML href tags to start off with. Then you have a plain document and you can convert every url to a tag.

answered Feb 26 '13 at 11:31

Husman

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but of course the other HTML elements in the same document will be missing too – gamehelp16 Feb 27 '13 at 08:13
not if you just strip out the "" parts only – Husman Feb 27 '13 at 09:04
but the other links with different URL and link text will be error – gamehelp16 Feb 27 '13 at 10:08
no, a link looks like this "some text" you just need to find and remove "< href='" and "'>some text " and leave the url there. Your second script will then convert all URLs to links – Husman Feb 27 '13 at 10:11
but i want the link where the URL and the link text different keep to be like that – gamehelp16 Feb 28 '13 at 09:43

Dan Wilkins · Answer 2 · 2013-02-28T22:39:57.070

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<?php
function TextLink($string)
{
   if($string[0] != "<")
   {
      echo "<a href=\"http://www.".$string."\">".$string."</a>";
   }
}
?>

Call with TextLink('$string');

edited Feb 28 '13 at 22:39

answered Feb 26 '13 at 15:26

Dan Wilkins

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the text ia a blog post, so the link is inside the other text – gamehelp16 Feb 27 '13 at 08:14
I'm confused as to what you want then. You have a blog post like "blah blah blah blah HYPERLINKTHISWORD blah blah blah blah"? Could you maybe give an example as the answer I gave works for your questions example. – Dan Wilkins Feb 27 '13 at 15:29
yeah, like that. here is an example: "i have a site, the URL is http://mysite.com, please visit it!" – gamehelp16 Feb 28 '13 at 09:41

Automatically parse text to link in PHP

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