PHP: STR replace by link

Question

i have this PHP chatbox.

If i would type a link in the chatbox, it would not display it as a link.

How can i use STR replace to do this?

It should re

Answer 1

You should use regex instead. look at preg_replace

$regex = '`(\s|\A)(http|https|ftp|ftps)://(.*?)(\s|\n|[,.?!](\s|\n)|$)`ism';
$replace = '$1$2://$3$4'

$buffer = preg_replace($regex,$replace,$buffer);