still cant get it...

[Anon]

ive posted this question twice before already. im gonna keep posting untill someone can help me.
im trying to replace text with html tags. there are very good reasons for doing this so please dont post asking if im sure i want to do this 🙂
heres my code
$string = eregi_replace("([b])(.[^{[/b]+)([/b])",} "<b>\2</b>", $string);
$string = eregi_replace("([i])(.[^{[/i]+)([/i])",} "<i>\2</i>", $string);

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for some reason this will work for bold tags but not for italics. i cant figure it out... there are many more tags that im implementing these are only two.

ideas?

-paul
http://xhawk.net

[xzilla]

untested, but maybe try

preg_replace("/[\/?(i).]/" , "/<\/?(i).>/" , $string);

[Anon]

Now this is both weird and it's now succeeded in pissing me off.

Code:

$string = "Well Hellooooooo, Nurse!";
$tag_start = "";
$tag_end = "";
$tag_newstart = "<b>";
$tag_newend = "</b>";

$refined = eregi_replace("\$tag_start(.+)\$tag_end", "\$tag_newstart\1\$tag_newend", $string);

echo $refined;

It works exactly as wanted...almost. It outputs:

Well <b>Hellooooooo, Nurse!</b>

How in hell did those escapes make it in there? I don't see how it is that two extra "\" make it into the output, so perhaps someone could solve both of our problems?

Now I'm perplexed...

[stephanie]

this works:

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$string = "Well Hellooooooo, Nurse!";
$refined = eregi_replace("[b](.+)[/b]","\1", $string);

echo $refined;

also this works (you just needed to escape those brackets [ ] that have special meaning in regex):

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$string = "Well Hellooooooo, Nurse!";

$tag_start = "[b]";
$tag_end = "[/b]";
$tag_newstart = "";
$tag_newend = "";

$refined = eregi_replace("$tag_start(.+)$tag_end","\1", $string);

echo $refined;