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adrunis84
adrunis84

Reputation: 25

create url in text string using php

I am creating weblinks on my site using PHP. Why do this and not do it manually - because I am accessing link information that is pulled from a mysql database. The query pulls out the data fine, the only trouble I am having is creating a text string with a link.

Two variables; $Loc_Name is the text I want to display, $Loc_Web is the URL.

Now i found the following which puts in the URL fine, but this does not display the text in the $Loc_Name output. How can I display the $Loc_Name value for the $Loc_Web url?

$Web_Link = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>", $Loc_Web);

Please Note ereg functions have been deprecated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 236

Answers (1)

Volkan Ulukut
Volkan Ulukut

Reputation: 4228

if $Loc_Web is just the url without html tags, why don't you use this?

echo "<a href='" . $Loc_Web . "'>" . $Loc_Name . "</a>"

Upvotes: 2

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