Question

I found out how to linkify a URL in php here, but does anyone know how to do this same concept with an email address? Thanks!

Answer 1

Using preg_replace would be ideal.

gar_onn’s answer wouldnt work, because if i wrote a sentance like: “I use asterisk@home. It’s pretty neat”, the whole string would be linkified.

Something like this would be more ideal :

$pattern = '/([a-z0-9][-a-z0-9._]*[a-z0-9]*\@[a-z0-9][-a-z0-9_]+[a-z0-9]*\.[a-z0-9][-a-z0-9_-][a-z0-9]+)/i';

$str = preg_replace ($pattern, '<a href="mailto:\\1">\\1</a>', $str);