Replacing Two Strings Within A String And Copying What's Between Them
Yeah, kinda hard to sum up in a title. Basically, I'm trying to do something like BBCode, but I'm only making one tag--a link tag. For example, a user types [url]http://the.wesite.com/[/url], then the php code replaces [url] with <a href="http://the.website.com/"> and [/url] with </a>. Then the URL would appear again between the <a> tags. I've tried looking around, but I can't figure out which of the many string replacement functions I need to use.
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