BB code

[white04004]

Hi guys!

I am facing another problem again. I am developing my custom blog system, and I want to add [url]www.google.com[/url] and convert it into <a href="www.google.com">www.google.com</a>. How can I do that? I had tried substr(); but it doesn't work to url. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

[Temor]

Hi guys!

I am facing another problem again. I am developing my custom blog system, and I want to add http://www.google.com and convert it into <a href="www.google.com">www.google.com</a>. How can I do that? I had tried substr(); but it doesn't work to url. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

What you want is BBcode. Pretty similar or identical to the one this forum uses, am I right?

Google BBCode and there are tonnes of free scripts and tutorials on how to implement them.

[bowersbros]

I think, since he is working on his own custom software, that he is doing it for practice. Therefore he would want to make it himself.

try something like this:
[syntax=php]
<?php

$string = "http://google.com/";
$match = preg_match("/^([url]|[url=])((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&]*)[/url]/^","<a href='".$1."'>{$1}</a>",$string);
echo $match;
[/syntax]

Try something like that, untested though.

[EcazS]

http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index. ... ge__st__20
There are a lot of BB Parser code snippets that you can try out yourself.

[Chathu94]

For any url :
[syntax=php]
$str = "your url here";

$str = preg_replace("\[[uU][rR][lL]\](.*?)\[/[uU][rR][lL]\]", "<a Href='$1'>$1</a>" ,$str);[/syntax]

[jacek]

You can use the i modifier to make the expression case-insensitive

[syntax=php]$str = preg_replace("#\[url\](.*?)\[/url]#i", "<a href='$1'>$1</a>" ,$str);[/syntax]
bit neater

[white04004]

Thanks for your information. It works perfectly for me. Thanks a lot.