In some websites, when we add comment with email then email automatically converts into a link, So today I am showing you how to convert an email into link from text in PHP.
$string = 'please contact me on email@emaildomain.com';
ereg_replace("[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*(\.[A-Za-z]{2,3})", "<a href=\"mailto:\\0\">\\0</a>", $string);
As ereg_replace() is deprecated in PHP 5.3 you should use preg_replace like below:
function convertEmailToLinks($string) {
return preg_replace("/[_A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]+)*(\.[A-Za-z]{2,3})/", "<a href=\"mailto:\\0\">\\0</a>", $string);
}
Now you can use above function like below:
echo convertEmailToLinks($string);
And output will be:
please contact me on <a href="mailto:email@emaildomain.com">email@emaildomain.com</a>
