ereg_replace()

Anon

i'm using ereg_replace() to process some data from a form. However i'm having problems with the apostrophe ( ' ).
whatever i try it always prints it out as \' - i've tried replacing it with numerous things and escaping the backslash etc.

Help please

Alaric

Anon

Hi! Could you post some code?? 'cause maybe there is the answer.... see you

inK

Anon

heres the code - i fiddled a bit and it now displays apostrophes as \'\' not \'

begin formatting the text

$prea = strip_tags($message);
$preb = htmlspecialchars($prea);
$messagebeg = nl2br($preb);

$message1 = ereg_replace(\"🙂\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"smile.gif\\">\", $messagebeg);
$message2 = ereg_replace(\":\(\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"frown.gif\\">\", $message1);
$message3 = ereg_replace(\"😉\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"wink.gif\\">\", $message2);
$message4 = ereg_replace(\"😃\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"biggrin.gif\\">\", $message3);
$message5 = ereg_replace(\":o\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"redface.gif\\">\", $message4);
$message6 = ereg_replace(\":p\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"tongue.gif\\">\", $message5);
$message7 = ereg_replace(\"8)\", \"<IMG SRC=\\"cool.gif\\">\", $message6);
$message8 = ereg_replace(\"[\\']\", \"\'\", $message7);

end formatting the text

thanks
Alaric

Anon

i sorted it now thanks it needed the \\' in the string to b replaced.

thanks

alaric

Anon

Just a quick point.

I had this problem, where a user would enter something like: Andrew's on a form and I would get out: Andrew\'s without doing anything. The problem was that my host had something called 'magic_quotes' set to on, which I believe does the same thing as AddSlashes.

Andrew

Anon

Just a quick point.

Andrew

Anon

Just a quick point.

Andrew