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Raffaele
Raffaele

Reputation: 93

Automatically create email link from a static text

I'm trying to figure out how to automatically link the email addresses contained in a simple text from the db when it's printed in the page, using php.

Example, now I have: 

Lorem ipsum dolor [email protected] sit amet

And I would like to convert it (on the fly) to:

Lorem ipsum dolor <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> sit amet

Upvotes: 8

Views: 17017

Answers (4)

sMyles
sMyles

Reputation: 2666

Here's some code I combined (from answers on here) for a function to do this for emails and URLs:

The benefit of this is it does not convert to a link if one is already there.

function replace_links( $content ){
    $content = preg_replace('"<a[^>]+>.+?</a>(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|\b(?:https?)://\S+"', '<a href="$0">$0</a>', $content);
    $content = preg_replace('"<a[^>]+>.+?</a>(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|\b(\S+@\S+\.\S+)\S+"', '<a href="mailto:$0">$0</a>', $content);
    return $content;
}

Demo: https://glot.io/snippets/g6nwd6amyo

I also suggest looking at how WordPress handles this, as you know it's battle tested and deals with random issues like periods or other characters after the actual email:

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/formatting.php#L2997-L3055

Look at make_clickable and specifically _make_email_clickable_cb callback line (this is personally what i ended up using instead due to other regex issues)

Upvotes: 1

NothingCtrl
NothingCtrl

Reputation: 305

Try this version:

function automail($str){

    //Detect and create email
    $mail_pattern = "/([A-z0-9_-]+\@[A-z0-9_-]+\.)([A-z0-9\_\-\.]{1,}[A-z])/";

    $str = preg_replace($mail_pattern, '<a href="mailto:$1$2">$1$2</a>', $str);

    return $str;
}

Update 31/10/2015: Fix for email address like [email protected]

function detectEmail($str)
{
    //Detect and create email
    $mail_pattern = "/([A-z0-9\._-]+\@[A-z0-9_-]+\.)([A-z0-9\_\-\.]{1,}[A-z])/";
    $str = preg_replace($mail_pattern, '<a href="mailto:$1$2">$1$2</a>', $str);

    return $str;
}

Upvotes: 16

Erick
Erick

Reputation: 6089

You will need to use regex:

<?php

function emailize($text)
{
    $regex = '/(\S+@\S+\.\S+)/';
    $replace = '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>';

    return preg_replace($regex, $replace, $text);
}


echo emailize ("bla bla bla [email protected] bla bla bla");

?>

Using the above function on sample text below:

blalajdudjd [email protected] djjdjd

will be turned into the following:

blalalbla <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> djjdjd

Upvotes: 24

Dan Appleyard
Dan Appleyard

Reputation: 7445

I think this is what you want...

  //store db value into local variable
    $email = "[email protected]";
    echo "<a href='mailto:$email'>Email Me!</a>";

Upvotes: -2

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