image help

[Anon]

I need to know a funstion for a forums system I'm putting together. I need a funsction that will take tags like this

[picture]

and look for whatever is inbetween the []'s in a directory called "images".

I looked at str_replace function and that comes close to what I want, (just have it relace the [ with <img src="image/$pic and the ] with ">. But I can't get it to change something in the [picture] format.

[Anon]

Use regular expressions. If you are sure that the only []s in the page will be images, then something like this would work:

$text=preg_replace("|[(.*)]|", '<img src="/images/\1">', $text);

and if the text is:

here is a pic: [nice_pic.jpg]

then it would be:

here is a pic: <img src="/images/nice_pic.jpg">

Hope that helps,

Dave