Replace URLs in text with HTML links

Question

Here is a design though: For example is I put a link such as

http://example.com

in textarea. How do I get PHP t

Answer 1

this should get you email addresses:

$string = "bah bah steve@gmail.com foo";
$match = preg_match('/[^\x00-\x20()<>@,;:\\".[\]\x7f-\xff]+(?:\.[^\x00-\x20()<>@,;:\\".[\]\x7f-\xff]+)*\@[^\x00-\x20()<>@,;:\\".[\]\x7f-\xff]+(?:\.[^\x00-\x20()<>@,;:\\".[\]\x7f-\xff]+)+/', $string, $array);
print_r($array);

// outputs:
Array
(
    [0] => steve@gmail.com
)