How to hyperlink web addresses

<?php
include("header.php");
echo "</BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR>";
echo "<div style='position:absolute; overflow:hidden; left:306px; top:172px; width:335px; height:39px; z-index:0'>
<FONT style='font-size:10pt' color=#000000 face='Tahoma'>
<DIV><FONT style='font-size:18pt' color=#D0C85E>Some text!</FONT></DIV>
</FONT>
</DIV></BR></BR>";
echo "<FONT style='font-size:10pt' color=666699 face='Comic Sans MS'>";
$filename = "file1.txt";
$fo = fopen($filename,"r");
$contents = fread($fo,filesize($filename));
echo stripslashes($contents);
?>

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How can i hyperlink any websites with http:// protocol, i.e. a site link is placed between other text in $contents, and i want to make it a hyperlink when the $contents are echoed in a HTML file.

$contents = some text here http://www.somewebhere.com some text here
echo $contents

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Now what should i add so that the site becomes a hyperlink when printed on the html page.

Thanks

 

You should add to http:// the html tag <a, it should be <a href="http://www.yoursite.com">http://www.yoursite.com</a>, so you should look for a word that begins with http:// and replace it with the code above...

 

You just rephrased my question , thats exactly what i am asking. How!

 

You want to use some kind of regular expression match

Look at this link, its the php preg_replace function and the comment I linked you to provides all the code you need!

In case your lazy here it is

<?php
$text="I like http://www.yahoo.com, http://www.google.com, and I connect through FTP to my site through ftp://www.mysite.com.";

function url_links($string)
{
$string=preg_replace("/(http:\/\/|ftp:\/\/)([^\s,]*)/i","<a href='$1$2'>$1$2</a>",$string);
return $string;
}

print url_links($text);
?>

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It worked for me thanks, rep added!