Question

I have tags that separated by ; in MySQL database and they are all in one field.

so whenever I try to load the field. the data will be displayed like this :

tag1 ; tag2 ; tag3

What I want to do, is to add url to every tag. basically I want to display it like this:

<a href="http://example.com/tag1">tag1</a> 
<a href="http://example.com/tag2">tag2</a>  
<a href="http://example.com/tag3">tag3</a>

I was thinking to use str_replace to replace the ; with </a> but how do I do the beginning of each tag!

Is there a code that does that better than str_replace?

Answer 1

$tags = "tag1 ; tag2 ; tag3";
$t = explode(";",$tags);
$string = '';
foreach($t as $value) {
   $value = trim($value);
   $string .= "<a href='http://example.com/$value'>$value</a>";
}