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primozs
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:50 pm    Post subject: Creating hyperlinks in the text Reply with quote

I wold like to change all URLs in a text to hyperlinks, e.g. http://www.google.com would change to
Code:
<a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a>


I have checked the other thread talking about similar issue http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5762&highlight=hyperlink and I wanted to use that code. So I am trying to modify the $string variable that contains the text like this (OK, i replaced ereg_replace with newer preg_replace):

Code:
{$string = preg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $string)}


Unfortunately it doesn't work. Instead of modifying the $string variable it prints ou on the WEB page "http://www.google.com".

Any suggestion?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That other thread was creating a function that uses regular PHP code in it.

Your approach is wanting to use Smarty syntax within the template. So, based off your example...
Code:
{assign var="string" value=preg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $string)}

There is also Smarty's own variable modifier regex_replace.

In your pattern expression, I don't see any capturing parentheses. Also, preg_replace needs a unique character delimiter. A | (pipe) or # (hash) should work for this.
Code:
preg_replace("#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#","<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $string)

I assume you have managed to differentiate between what looks like a stand-alone URL versus a URL already in an anchor tag.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for very fast answer.
I have tried with the "assign" already and hasn't worked, but it looks like correct approach. The results from the suggestions are bellow.

1.
Code:
{assign var="string" value=preg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $string)}

The WEB page looks like:
Quote:
preg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","\\0",

The HTML code is:
Code:
<p>preg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^&lt;&gt;[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href="\&quot;\\0\&quot;" target="\&quot;_blank\&quot;">\\0</a>",</p>


2.
Code:
{assign var="string" value=preg_replace("#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#","<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>", $string)}

The WEB page looks like:
Quote:
preg_replace("#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#","\\0",

The HTML code is:
Code:
<p>preg_replace("#([[:alpha:]]+://[^&lt;&gt;[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#","<a href="\&quot;\\0\&quot;" target="\&quot;_blank\&quot;">\\0</a>",</p>


Any idea what is wrong?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The value may need to be other than a straight PHP syntactically-correct function call. Maybe more like Smarty's variable modifier syntax.

So,
Code:
{assign var="string" value=$string|preg_replace:"#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#":"<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>"}

But, since this is a modifier acting on the same variable, we can apply it to that variable and just use it:
Code:
{$string|preg_replace:"#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#":"<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>"}
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primozs
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In both cases it doesn't work and I get the error:

WARNING: preg_replace(): Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We are closer.

It is strange because we are not using an alphanumeric character as the delimiter. We are using the # character.

So, I wonder if Smarty uses the arguments in the other order:
Code:
{$string|preg_replace:"<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>":"#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#"}
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know we are very close, thank you for helping.

Unfortunately the suggestion doesn't work. Again error "WARNING: preg_replace(): Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash"
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For reasons I do not understand, using PHP's preg_replace() is not doing it for us.

Let's use Smarty's function:
Code:
{$string|regex_replace:"#([[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])#":"<a href=\"\\0\" TARGET=\"_blank\">\\0</a>"}
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great, now it works. Thank you!
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