[text_to_url_LP6]

Description

Link: [text_to_url_LP6]
Author: Asle Benoni
Category: String
Version: 6.x
License:
Posted: Feb. 21, 2006
Updated: Feb. 21, 2006
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A simple tag to make URL and MAILTO: links from a text input or field.

Mail addresses are converted to <a href="mailto:foo@foo.com">foo@foo.com</a>. It searches for any links beginning with "www..." and converts them to <a href=> links. A link without "www" will also be clickable as long as it starts with "http://". Of course it cannot decide if a text like "blueworld.com" is a URL. The tag should guess all kinds of weird URLS.

If the text includes i.ex. <a href="http://bw.com">Click here</a> links it does not treat them since these are hardcoded already and you don't want to change them. It only treats obvious links that are not already clickable.

Option to choose whether or not to show "http://" in the link text.

Parameters

-Field string, required The text to convert

Sample Usage

Usage:
 text_to_url:'Please visit us at www.sample.com'
 -> Please visit us at <a href="http://www.sample.com">http://www.sample.com</a>

 text_to_url:'Please visit us at http://sample.com'
 -> Please visit us at <a href="http://sample.com">http://sample.com</a>

 text_to_url:'Please contact us at support@sample.com'
 -> Please visit us at <a href="mailto:support@sample.com">suppport@sample.com</a>

 If you want to leave out the "http://" in the link text you must change the value of local:'linktext'
						

Source Code

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<?LassoScript //[
/*
#############################################################################################################
## Custom_tag: [text_to_url]
## Version: 1.1.1
## Date: 18-11-2005
## Author: Asle Benoni - asle@benoni.no || use it as you like but at your own risk ;-)
## Function: Takes a textinput containing URLs (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP) and email adresses and converts them to clickable links
## Platform: Lasso 7 and Lasso 6.
## Availability: FREE - but I would be glad to hear if you are using it or have suggestions/requests for changes
## -> and if you keep the author information here ;-)
##
## A simple tag to make URL and MAILTO links from a text input or field.
## It searches for any links beginning with "www..." and converts them to <a href> links.
## A link without "www" will also be clickable as long as there it starts with "http://"
## Of course it cannot decide if a text like "blueworld.com" is a URL.
## The tag should guess all kinds of weird URLS
## If the text includes i.ex. <a href="http://bw.com">Click here</a> links it does not treat them since 
## these are hardcoded already and you don`t want to change them. It only treats obvious links that
## are not already clickable.
## 
## Usage:
## text_to_url:'Please visit us at www.sample.com'
## -> Please visit us at <a href="http://www.sample.com">http://www.sample.com</a>
##
## text_to_url:'Please visit us at http://sample.com'
## -> Please visit us at <a href="http://sample.com">http://sample.com</a>
##
## text_to_url:'Please contact us at support@sample.com'
## -> Please visit us at <a href="mailto:support@sample.com">suppport@sample.com</a>
##
## If you want to leave out the "http://" in the link text you must change the value of local:'linktext'
##
#############################################################################################################
*/
						
define_tag: 'text_to_url_lp6', -Required='Field';

local:'urltext'= '';
local:'linktext'= '\\1';  // Change this value to '\\3' if you DO NOT want the link text to show a leading 'http://'

// First we change all "www.xx.xx" to "http://...."
#urltext = (String_ReplaceRegExp:#Field, -Find='((?<!://)www\\.)', -Replace='http://\\1', -EncodeNone);


// Then we change http://.... til clickable URLs (but NOT those already hardcoded i.ex. "<a href="http://sample.com"> Visit us </a>"
#urltext=(String_ReplaceRegExp:#urltext, -Find='((?<!"|>)(https?://|ftp://)((([A-Za-z0-9$_.+!*(),;/?:@&~=-])|%[A-Fa-f0-9]{2})+(#([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*(),;/?:@&~=%-]*))?))', -Replace='<a href=\"\\1\">'+ #linktext +'</a>', -EncodeNone);

// Create email-links from found email
#urltext = (String_ReplaceRegExp:#urltext, -Find='([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4})', -Replace='<a href=\"mailto:\\1\"> \\1 </a>', -EncodeNone);

#urltext = (String_Replace: -Find='\n', -Replace='<br>\n', #urltext, -EncodeNone);

return: @#urltext;

/define_tag;

//]
?>

 

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