Hello,

I have this text field thats 255 characters max. Now the fields may have URL's and I was wondering if anyone can give me some sort of link or guidence on where I can learn how I can automatically convert those URL's into links printed in HTML.

The text field will be stored inside a database and when I print the comments onto the browser, I would automatically want the URL's to be a link. I'm figuring some sort of regex may do the trick? Finding "http://" to the next space and then taking that value and printing it in "a" tags.

thanks for taking your time to read this.

Considered: ww: retitle: hyperlinks in text fields (not comments as in # nor as in <!-- nor /*..... etc)
Unconsidered: ysth - Keep/Edit/Delete: 7/22/0

In reply to Having hyperlinks in comments by Anonymous Monk

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