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How do I replace [URL=http://www.whatever.com]Link[/URL] with anchor tags?

Jul 9th, 2003 12:34
Gerhardt, Andrew McFague,

<?php
$text = "Some link: [URL=http://www.example.com/]Link[/URL]";
/*
You didn't say if the link-description could contain
square-brackets like "[". So I had to make it relativly general
*/
$pattern = '#\[URL\s*=\s*(\w+://[^\]]+)\](.+?)\[/URL]#';
$replacement = '<a href="\1">\2</a>';
$text = preg_replace($pattern,$replacement,$text);
echo $text;
?>