# Replace function in PHP

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**Created:** [September 26, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replace-function-in-php/201936 "2006-09-26T12:32:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replace-function-in-php/201936/1 "2006-09-26T12:32:19Z")

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I am trying to write out links to a page to make a link list from a MySql DB. I want to make sure that all the links are consistant and write out [http://www.site.com](http://www.site.com) into the href tags.

As the user has the ability to copy and past links into the admin section there may be some rows that have the link Url as [http://www](http://www). and others that are just www.

What I want to know is what function is best to use in PHP for removing the first instance of “http://” in a string. In ASP it would be written as

```auto
<a href="http://<%=replace(rsLinks.Fields.Item("LinkURL").Value,"http://","")%>" 

```

just need to know how to do it in PHP, any help is appreciated.