Tried the code on:
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See the source from running the example below, the last link is not fully processed - is there a fix?

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Thank you for the feedback leegold. I have not looked at this snippet of code in a long time and I will surely review it as soon as possible.

I made changes to fix this error plus I added the ability to control the rel="nofollow" attribute in the links created by this code.

FYI, all 3 custom functions were modified today.

As usual, I'll apreciate any feedback. http://www.gidforums.com/t-1816.html.

your script seems to work fine for plain text url's but doesn't seem to work for email addresses. Also if it runs into a url that's already a link it tries to make it a link again, resulting in problems.

I've thought of doing a php strip_tags before passing the text to the function but that would kill links like <a href="http://www.google.com">the number one search engine</a> and they'd be gone forever with no way of putting them back.

I've got a site where people post articles and they have a "resource box" at the bottom of their article that tells about them and has a link to their website and sometimes an email address. Problem is that sometimes they make their url a link and sometimes they don't, same with the email address.

It would be great if this function skipped over anything already in html tags (i.e. ignore anything between "<a" and "</a>" and only made plain-text urls into hyperlinks. Same for the email addresses.

Thank you for your work on this so far. If I knew php better I'd offer help but for now all I can offer is suggestions.

-Jason
www.articleblast.com

Here is a quick and dirty way to acheive a good deal of efficiency (not including email addresses)

Good script but it doesn't seem to work for .ch TLD's. Also being able to convert email addresses would be great. It also seems to have problems with foreign characters. E.g. if there is code for ü in the string it will just display &uuml; without converting it.