Hyperlinks within Commenting box

Hi,

You are going to need to use a custom function when outputting your comments to find urls within the string and output them.

Here is one function I found that works reasonably well.
URL : http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6156

function make_clickable($text)
{
$ret = ' ' . $text;
$ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"\\2\" >\\2</a>'", $ret);
$ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\" >\\2</a>'", $ret);
$ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([a-z0-9&\-_\.]+?)@([\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)*[\w]+)#i", "\\1<a href=\"mailto:\\2@\\3\">\\2@\\3</a>", $ret);
$ret = substr($ret, 1);
return($ret);
}

This code will only show a string as a link after it is saved and is used when outputting information.

For example:

<?php echo make_clickable($record['comment']); ?>

Please note that this function will only work when a link has either http:// in front, or www. or both.

For example:
www.google.com - this will work
http://google.com - this will work
http://www.google.com - this will work
google.com - this will NOT work.

Hope this helps get you started.