Hi !
I have a problem when trying to make a SELECT with REPLACE.
I have a text with email addresses and I would like to make them
active. It means to rewrite them to HTML language.
Consider text: "Hello, my address is go@stripped and you can use it".
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which I would like to change to:
"Hello, my address is <A HREF="mailto: go@stripped">go@stripped</A>"
I decided to use the syntax:
SELECT REPLACE($text, $mail, $newmail) where $text is the variable
which includes the plain text and email addresses, $mail is the
concrete mail I am searching (e.g. go@stripped) and $newmail stands
for email writen in HTML language. (<A HREF... etc.).
Unfortunately this syntax does not work. But probably not because of
the syntax itself, but because Mysql can't replace the previous email
with HTML language. The problem is with "<" and ">" characters.
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Do you know, how to replace any text with the combination of "<>"
characters ? These characters are not consider as special I think and
that's why I think quoting with "\" is not needed.
I am using PHP to get to Mysql database.
John Zderadicka
Prague
