I want a situation where when a user types the <a href></a> tag in a form, it automatically converts it to a link..How do i go about it
Secondly, i need a working php pagination function script..
Thanks

Taiw: I want a situation where when a user types the <a href></a> tag in a form, it automatically converts it to a link..How do i go about it
Secondly, i need a working php pagination function script..
Thanks

Do you mean after submitting of the form or instant converting of the tag to link?

greenPHP:
Do you mean after submitting of the form or instant converting of the tag to link?

I mean after submitting the form. Any inputs filled using the <a href></a> tags should automatically convert it to hyperlink dat can b displayed on my page. my form echos back the tags instead of converting it to clickable hyperlinks

Taiw:
I mean after submitting the form. Any inputs filled using the <a href></a> tags should automatically convert it to hyperlink dat can b displayed on my page. my form echos back the tags instead of converting it to clickable hyperlinks

Do you know regular expression in PHP?

Have you tried the PHP htmlspecialchars_decode() Function?

greenPHP:
Do you know regular expression in PHP?

after hours of searching i found this $text = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)
+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a
href="$1">$1</a>', $text);

how do i go from here

got it now
<?php
$text = "hello http://example.com sample
[Name of Link](http://www.yourlink.com/)
[Name of a](http://www.world.com/)
[Name of Link](http://www.hello.com/)
<a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com\">hello world</a>
<a href='http://php.net'>php</a>
";
echo nl2br(make_clickable($text));
function make_clickable($text) {
$text = preg_replace_callback(
'#\[(.+)\]\((\bhttps?://[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|)/))\)#',
create_function(
'$matches',
'return "<a href=\'{$matches[2]}\'>{$matches[1]}</a>";'
),
$text
);
$text = preg_replace_callback('#(?<!href\=[\'"])(https?|ftp|file)://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@\#/%()?=~_|$!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@\#/%()=~_|$]#', create_function(
'$matches',
'return "<a href=\'{$matches[0]}\'>{$matches[0]}</a>";'
), $text);
return $text;
}