Eregi_replace qustion.

vulpes

i have that code:
$string = eregi('

'."*".'

',$code);
$string = htmlentities($string);

$code is the body of the message(just like that one)
but that code will output only true or false.
My question is:

is there any way to replace that $code between

and

with htmlentities($code)?

petrb

You need eregi_replace() and you need to have 3 parameters - the regex, the string to replace it with, and the target string variable. I think you are wanting this function.

--ph

vulpes

can you provide an example?

petrb

Try something like:
$repl = htmlentities($code);
$string = eregi_replace("<code>(.*)</code>", $repl, $code); // UNTESTED

But I think your regex looks funny, and I'm lousy at regular expressions, but I think this is correct. What it appears that you are trying to do is replace everything between and including the <code></code> tags with entities, right?

--ph

vulpes

i'm not trying to replace

and

yet 🙂 for

and

replacing i'm using that:
$code=str_replace("

\r\n","<P><blockquote><smallfont>code:</smallfont><hr>",$code);
  $code=str_replace("[code]","<P><blockquote><smallfont>code:</smallfont><hr>",$code);
  $code=str_replace("

\r\n","<hr></blockquote>",$code);
$code=str_replace("[/code]","<hr></blockquote>",$code);

so how to make your example to do not touch

and

petrb

OK. I am having a hard time understanding the square brackets, and, um, I don't see how that string would be found ANYWAY if your HTML tag is (the legal way) <code>. BUT, this may get you further down the road:

$openrepl = "<blockquote><smallfont>code:</smallfont><hr>";
$closerepl = "<hr></blockquote>";

$openfixed = htmlentities($openrepl);
$closefixed = htmlentities($closerepl);

...then run an ereg_replace() using these variables for the replacement string.

--ph

vulpes

no,no you don not compleatly understand, because there is <code> tag in html. And i'm not using it. I'm trying to make a code fully showable you know some forums allow , , , etc. And i'm trying to make text between

 <font color="white"><br><p><b><i>test</i></b></p>

visiable as it was typed in the form.

vulpes

as you can see it messed up text here.

petrb

Clearly, I don't understand AT ALL. Last try...take the variable that you want to convert, say $foruminput (if that is some HTML) and try this:

$show = htmlentities($foruminput);
echo $show;

...then the web browser will show all the angle brackets that the user typed in. 4 back-and-forths is enough. The end.

--ph

vulpes

i'm sorry that you don't understand.
do you know ubb?
do you know it have ubb_code?
do you know

are part of ubb_code?
do you know what

do?
do you know that it uses HTML <pre> tag?
well for some goddamn reason pre doesn't work correctly so i'm using htmlentities();
so basicly when somebody put some text containing html and php and whatever between

the output will convert that text. if i somehow replaced that text with htmlentities(text) it will leave it as it is right?
that is my quiestion.

I'm really sorry for my bad english!

Anon

hi,
I know what u mean, kind of... I do it like this :
$str contains your message...

first, do this:
$str = nl2br(htmlspecialchars($str))

then, you can do stuff like this:
$str = eregi_replace("\[b\](.*)\[/b\]","\1",$str);

leave out the spaces in the bold-tags (I put them there, hoping this forum won't mess up :p )
it also makes sure the tag is closed, or it will not touch it...

also, this may be of interest to you :
$str = eregi_replace("\[color=([#a-z0-9]*)\](.*)\[/color\]","\2",$str);

again, leave out the redundant spaces...

and, if you want to give them an [url]-tag, this does the trick for me :

$str = eregi_replace("\[url\]http://([^{\[])\[/url\]","<} a href=\"http://\1\" target=\"_blank\">\1< / a >",$str);
$str = eregi_replace("\[url\]([^\[]*)\[/url\]", "< a href=\"http://\1\" target=\"_blank\">\1< / a >",$str);
$str = eregi_replace("\[url=http://(^\[])\]([^\[]*)\[/url\]","< a href=\"http://\1\" target=\"_blank\" >\2< / a >",$str);
$str = eregi_replace("\*)\]([^\[]*)\[/url\]","< a href=\"http://\1\" target=\"_blank\" >\2< /a >",$str);

finally, for images and swf :

$str=eregi_replace("\[img\]([^\[]*)\[/img\]","< img src=\"\1\" border=0 >",$str);

		$str=eregi_replace("\\[swf width=([^\\[]*) height=([^\\[]*)\\]([^\\[]*)\\[/swf\\]","< object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4\,0\,2\,0\" width=\"\\1\" height=\"\\2\">< param name=quality value=high><param name=\"SRC\" value=\"\\3\">< embed src=\"\\3\" quality=high pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"\\1\" height=\"\\2\"></ embed></object>", $str);

parts of this code is ripped from blazeboard, but I modified it a bit...

hope this helps...

Anon

oops sorry, this was not exactly what u needed, I was too fast... I think the easiest way would be splitting it on "

", loop through the resulting array, split each part on

, take the first part (which will be the part between the tag), do htmlentities or whatever, add it to a string, add the second part (which would be the part after the closing [/code]) and add it to the same string, and keep loopig... I don't know if this will be slow or not though...
you'll probably have to do a couple of tests too in order to make sure everything is correct, maybe this will not work out fine if the string starts with

, I dunno, think about it and u'll figuere out exaclty what to do... but I'm sure what I just explained will be able to do the trick...

Anon

hi guys, ive been working on a ubb2html function for my discussion board. you're welcome to use it. it is the best one ive seen (if i do say so myself) because it allows cascading tags ex) underlined underlined and bold it also requires an opening and closing tag so a tag left open wont kill the rest of your page. i had to use preg_replace because of inherent problems of trying to do this with ereg_replace(its too greedy). follow the link to the code on this page:
http://xhawk.net/discussion/

let me know how it works out...

-paul

vulpes

man, if that <pre> tag would work, i wouldn't have all that discussion. but for some reason it aint working.