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cnwtx

Basically I have this in the html:

<td>example@example.com</td>

And I want to have php make that into this:

<td><a href="example@example.com">example@example.com</a></td>

If necessary, I could use javascript, but I'd like to keep this to the server-side.

Danjit

Something along the lines of this? :

<?php
$content ='<table><tr><td>example@example.com</td><td>example@example.co.uk</td></tr></table>';

$addr_pattern = '/([A-Z0-9._%+-]+)@([A-Z0-9.-]+)\.([A-Z]{2,4})(\((.+?)\))?/i';
preg_match_all($addr_pattern, $content, $addresses);
$the_addrs = $addresses[0];
for ($a = 0; $a < count($the_addrs); $a++) {
     $repaddr[$a] = preg_replace($addr_pattern, '<a href="mailto:$1@$2.$3">$1@$2.$3</a>', $the_addrs[$a]);
 }
 $cc = str_replace($the_addrs, $repaddr, $content);
 
 echo $cc;
 ?>

based on : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5068676/regex-to-detect-plain-email-and-mailto-link-emails

stevencrader

There is a wordpress plugin that does this really well. I would suggest taking a look at the source code and seeing what you can get from it. http://www.semiologic.com/software/autolink-uri/

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