!Help! Some weird error !!!

[ppavlovic]

I defined a function that replaces template vars, and it looks like this

function replace_var($var, $replacement, $v)
{
return ereg_replace("{$var}", htmlspecialchars($replacement), $v);
}

on my WinNT box (PHP4.0.4.pl1), everything is OK, when I call it like
$form = replace_var("MODEL", $model, $form);

But, on a web host PHP4.0.1/Linux I get following error/warning:
Warning: Invalid content of {} in /home/site12/scipt.php on line 585

What is the problem?

thanx in advance
coyote

[daarius]

whats been passed on $var? there could be some delimeters in $var, for which you need to addslahes() before it is used in ereg_replace()

[ppavlovic]

$var is plain text. Nothing unusual. $v is piece of HTML code.
As I said, I just call it with something like

$form = replace_var("MODEL", $model, $form);

when I echo $var in function replace_var, it gives me exactly what I want, and that is, in this case, MODEL

Something is just not right

.....coyote