Hi Guys.
I am new to this forum so I thaught i'd post a useful code snippet. it changes text to clickable html links.
Hope it comes in handy.
Pete:)
Turn text into clickable links
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<%
'***** BEGIN FUNCTIONS *****
' This function takes a string as input and links any www's it
' finds so that they are then clickable in a browser.
Function LinkURLs(strInput)
Dim iCurrentLocation ' Our current position in the input string
Dim iLinkStart ' Beginning position of the current link
Dim iLinkEnd ' Ending position of the current link
Dim strLinkText ' Text we're converting to a link
Dim strOutput ' Return string with links in it
' Start at the first character in the string
iCurrentLocation = 1
' Look for http:// in the text from the current position to
' the end of the string. If we find it then we start the
' linking process otherwise we're done because there are no
' more http://'s in the string.
Do While InStr(iCurrentLocation, strInput, "www", 1) <> 0
' Set the position of the beginning of the link
iLinkStart = InStr(iCurrentLocation, strInput, "www", 1)
' Set the position of the end of the link. I use the
' first space as the determining factor.
iLinkEnd = InStr(iLinkStart, strInput, " ", 1)
' If we didn't find a space then we link to the
' end of the string
If iLinkEnd = 0 Then iLinkEnd = Len(strInput) + 1
' Take care of any punctuation we picked up
Select Case Mid(strInput, iLinkEnd - 1, 1)
Case ".", "!", "?"
iLinkEnd = iLinkEnd - 1
End Select
' This adds to the output string all the non linked stuff
' up to the link we're curently processing.
strOutput = strOutput & Mid(strInput, iCurrentLocation, iLinkStart - iCurrentLocation)
' Get the text we're linking and store it in a variable
strLinkText = Mid(strInput, iLinkStart, iLinkEnd - iLinkStart)
' Build our link and append it to the output string
strOutput = strOutput & "<A HREF=""http://" & strLinkText & """ target=""_blank"">" & strLinkText & "</A>"
' Some good old debugging
'Response.Write iLinkStart & "," & iLinkEnd & "<BR>" & vbCrLf
' Reset our current location to the end of that link
iCurrentLocation = iLinkEnd
Loop
' Tack on the end of the string. I need to do this so we
' don't miss any trailing non-linked text
strOutput = strOutput & Mid(strInput, iCurrentLocation)
' Set the return value
LinkURLs = strOutput
End Function 'LinkURLs
'***** END FUNCTIONS *****
Dim strUnlinked ' The variable to hold out text to be linked up.
' Get the input string from wherever...
' It probably makes the most sense when this is read in from a
' DB or text file.!
strUnlinked = "http://www.kudosvisions.com is the best Web site! <br />" & vbCrLf
strUnlinked = strUnlinked & "Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ always has lots of good info too. <br />" & vbCrLf
' Show title for modified string
Response.Write "<B>Original Text:</B><BR>" & vbCrLf
' Show the original string for comparison:
Response.Write strUnlinked
' Spacing!
Response.Write vbCrLf & "<BR>" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
' Show title for modified string
Response.Write "<B>Text After Linking:</B><BR>" & vbCrLf
' Call our function and write out the results:
Response.Write LinkURLs(strUnlinked)
' That really is all there is to it folks!
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Dani 4,562 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
Welcome to DaniWeb and thank you for your contribution! I went ahead and made a small edit by removing the tag you had surrounding the code snippet. Within this code snippet library, that is done automatically for you. It still needs to be done in the forums though. Thanks![code=asp] tag you had surrounding the code snippet. Within this code snippet library, that is done automatically for you. It still needs to be done in the forums though. Thanks!
pecp 0 Newbie Poster
Cool just what I needed. Thanks.
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