Posted by Stefan Rybacki on 10/12/05 13:22

dean wrote:
> hi
> I am having a problem with one of my scripts
> Say if someone posted <a href="mailto: some@email.com">email me</a>
> I wan't it replace with <a
> href="http://www.mydomain.com/scripts.php">email me</a>
>
> I have tried regular expressions but to no avail.
> thanks

but regular expression is exactly what you want.

try something like this in preg_replaceall:

/<a.+href\W*=\W*\"\W*mailto:.*\".*>/

Regards
Stefan

PS: untested but this way you'll get an idea

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