Posted by Geoff Berrow on 11/20/06 13:50

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Krustov contained the following:

>> or having to do <href = or <a href = for a link
>> what could i do to have php enter to mysql or retrive it formated?
>>
>
>If you mean you have a piece of bare text like http://www.whatever.com
>and you want to make it into a hyperlink after grabbing it from your
>database - then you could do something like the following .
>
><?php
>
>$grab="http://www.whatever.com";
>
>$extra="<a href=$grab>$grab</a>";
>
>print $extra;
>
>?>

It could be that he wants to turn anything that just looks like a link
into a link. That would involve a bit of regex (note to self: must put
in effort to learn more regex...)



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