i dont know what to call it..

[Anon]

Hi all, Im in the proccess of coding my own private message system and then hopefully some web forums.

Right now ive got most the private message system done but im trying to add in my own MARKUP tags

So far single ones work fine, like [smile] to a smily face, what I dont know how to do is make SOMETHING know how to grab whats between them.

Im using this so far:

function parse_text ($string) {
$string = str_replace("[cool]","<img src='images/emoticons/cool.gif'>","$string");
$string = str_replace("[grin]","<img src='images/emoticons/grin.gif'>","$string");
$string = str_replace("[frown]","<img src='images/emoticons/frown.gif'>","$string");
$string = str_replace("[shock]","<img src='images/emoticons/shock.gif'>","$string");
$string = str_replace("[smile]","<img src='images/emoticons/smile.gif'>","$string");
$string = str_replace("[tongue]","<img src='images/emoticons/tongue.gif'>","$string");
$string = str_replace("[wink]","<img src='images/emoticons/wink.gif'>","$string");

	return "$string";

}

any help would be appreciated!!!

[khaine]

what you need to do is restrict the user to one url per line. then use this to extract the info.

instead of having al open and a close you can put a duel string in quotes after the open tag....

after ALL your str_replace's.

<?

$linein='to go to my site [url]"click here,www.website.com" and away you go.';

$bits=explode("\"", $linein);
$bobs=explode(",", $bits[1]);

$linein=substr($bits[0], 0, -5);
$linein.="<A href=\"http://".$bobs[1]."\">".$bobs[1]."</A>";
$linein=$bits[2];

?>

Mark.

[Anon]

Actually, I got it using preg_match and regular expressions, thanks anyways 😉