Quotes for Regular Expressions

Anon

I use eregi to detect the presence of a custom tag, but it's having problems when it runs into something like:

[img="image.gif" alt="Something right "here""]

I would like to allow users to put quotes in for the alt="" portion, so I added support into my regular expression statement. But once I add support for it, it ends up thinking that the ending quote from alt="" is also part of the portion that's supposed to be in-between the tags.

Is there a way to still allow quotes to be used in part that's in-between the alt=""?

Anon

You would have to convert the quote into an HTML quote, " I believe.... There are two reasons for this.... For one, HTML will not allow placing quotes inside of quotes.. (for example, <img src="image.gif" alt="this is a "real" picture"> would not work..., the quotes inside quotes need to be &quot😉.

So converting these before tossing the query into eregi should get rid of the problems in eregi and html.

As for a regular expression to replace these, I'm not really sure how it can be done... 🙁

You would have to change the format of your img tag to something like this:

Then you would be able to have quotes in your alt, however they would still need to be converted to " before placed in an <img> alt tag.

Hope my rambling helped out some...

Anon

That's a good point about the fact that HTML doesn't even recognize quotes inside of quotes... maybe I should just forget about it... never even thought about that fact!