Problem reading URLs from file

I’m making a basic news section, with a script to add news and another to read it, which will be embedded in an HTML page eventually. I’m fairly new to PHP, and I’ve got an issue with URLs in the content.

The URL is added to the file ok, the file looks like this –

[code]
12.07.05|Simon|Let’s try a hyperlink test <a href=”http://www.msn.com”>for MSN</a>
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and the PHP code that reads and displays the file is this –

[code]
<?php
$data = file(‘news.txt’);
$data = array_reverse($data);
foreach($data as $element) {
$element = trim($element);
$element = preg_replace(‘/(http|ftp)+(s)?:(//)((w|.)+)(/)?(S+)?/i’, ‘<a href=””>4</a>’, $element);

$pieces = explode(“|”, $element);
echo $pieces[2] . “<BR>” . “<b>Posted by ” . $pieces[1] . ” on ” . $pieces[0] . “</b><BR><BR>”;
}
?>
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When I run it the link isn’t displayed correctly. When I vew source of the HTML page that is displayed it has this –

[code]
Let’s try a hyperlink test <a href=”<a href=”http://www.msn.com”>for”>www.msn.com</a> MSN</a><BR><b>Posted by Simon on 12.07.05</b><BR><BR>
[/code]

As you can see, the URL of the home site is being added, plus the actual URL isn’t being formatted correctly.

Can anyone help with this????

If you provide a solution can you try and take the time to explain bascially what is going wrong, so I can understand PHP a bit better? I’ve only been using it for a few days.

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