mysql madness

I've a bit of a problem here, and I am hoping someone can help me here.

I've got a simple database with a simple table in it that contains nothing but content. The client wants to be able to edit this content. That's fine, that's all working properly. She's not savvy, however, and doesn't want to learn anything about linking. The question is this: is there a way to dump the data from a field (the field is "content") to the page, processing it such that if a word exists (like "%link|linkword" for example) in the query, how can I make PHP create a link out of that (in the place it is pulled from in the content) such that it displays as...

So far I've tried using explode and implode (each word dumped into an instance of $array) to dump it all into an array and search that array for instances where the word begins with %, and I can't seem to get it right.

Any insight?

I think you would need a character marking the beginning and ending like this: %link|linkword%. I believe the function eregi_replace() is what you are looking for, however I lack the regular expression knowledge to code one up for you Go check it out at php.net or maybe someone here will be nice and code out an example for ya.

Try this:

man, i gotta learn to do those Perhaps someone can point me towards a tutorial?

Thanks a lot. That worked great. Regular expressions have always killed me, so I always try to find a different way to do things.