ereg_replace problem

[Anon]

I'm trying to embed a live journal into a webpage of mine. So far, most of it's been easy. But there's one piece of it that has eluded me.

By using a line like

<?include "http://www.diary.com/script.cgi?username=username&styleid=1111"; ?>

You can pull down a chunk of html code to embed in your webpage. The problem is that all of the urls contained inside it are pointing back at the journal site, and I want to embed the whole darn thing so it runs completely inside my site. So I was directed to peek at ereg_replace, by someone with a little know how.

I did something similar to

<?
$string= include "http://www.diary.com/script.cgi?username=username&styleid=1111";
$string= ereg_replace('www.diary.com/script.cgi','www.mydomain.com/myscript.php',$string);
echo $string;
?>

Now, this actually WOULD have worked. But for one problem. Some of the HTML being served has " in it. I went into the journal site and changed manually, ALL of hte code I had the ability to change. No dice. Some of the code generated is out of my hands to change. So the "s are causing it to bomb. (For the record, I tested this theory by grabbing the long string of HTML generated and doing a manual search and replace in an editor, making the results hardcoded to be $string and ran it, it worked.)

So how does one ereg_replace a string to change " to ' when ereg_replace bombs out because of the "s in the string to begin with?

(I'm hoping that made sense)

Any suggestions, advice? Frankly, I'm at a loss.

[Anon]

I don't think you've correctly identified the problem, which probably has nothing to do with quotation marks.

The "include" directive does not return a string. It passes the output through (while scanning for PHP code). So if you're applying ereg_replace to the result of $string=include "something", you're hammering on an empty string.

Try $string=file("http://whatever"); then $string = implode("\n",$string); then ereg_replace, then echo the results.

[Anon]

Can you provide a (shortened) sample of a string that will
make ereg_replace() misbehave? AFAIK there's no reason
why a string can't contain any number of embedded quote
marks of any type. The problem with quotes and escaping
them and all that has to do with PHP <i>source code</i>
not the contents of variables.

[Anon]

This solved it. You were quite correct. Thanks for the help.