Question

One of the fields in our PHP page is a description – occasionally there are website links included. However, when pulling this data from the database table the links remain non-clickable. How can I parse text from database table as HTML in final rendered PHP page? Thanks!

Answer 1

Do you mean something like this?

<?php
    echo "<a href='$linkLocation'>$linkName</a>";
?>

[Edit]

Server-side you could transform the orginal text ($det[9]) like this (based on this SO question):

<div id="text"><?php 
echo preg_replace_callback(
    '/http:\/\/([,\%\w.\-_\/\?\=\+\&\~\#\$]+)/',
    create_function(
        '$matches',
        'return \'<a href="http://\'.  $matches[1] .\'">\'.  $matches[1] .\'</a>\';'
    ),
    $det[9]
);
?></div>

[Edit: merged the original code from your comment]
[Edit: fixed typo]