preg_replace being ignored

[Anon]

Hi,

I am working on a website the uses preg_replace quite alot and I have not had any problems with it until today.

Today I uploaded the site to the ISP hosting the web and everything works except for the preg_replace fuctions - they seem to be ignored.

The problem has to that I develope on IIS, but the ISP is running Apache.

Here is a simple replace code that is being ignored now.

//Replace [myTag] tags in $text
$patterns = "/[myTag([ \w]+)]/e";
$replace = "convertToRealTag('\1')";
$new_body= preg_replace ($patterns, replace, $text);

I wonder if this is a backslash issue?

Samuel

[znouza]

did you try to leave $patterns alone without "/e" modifier? or add a "/U" modifier

[Anon]

I have tries that with no luck. Besides I need the e modifier to be able to use the function in the replacement. It was at least required for the IIS server to work.

I think that the function is actually not ignored - it is just the a match is not found and therefore there is no replacement.

Samuel

[Anon]

You can take a look at the servers phpinfo here.

http://www.budir.is/phpinfo.php

It says there that the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support is enabled.

Sammi