do some thing with some txt

[Anon]

when the person post his article I store it in my database
the person have some php code in his article
to make it very useful

he put the code between

[phpcode]
[/phpcode]

I want to take the code and highlight it
with out do any thing wrong in the person article
how can i do that ??

[Anon]

<?php
eregi("[phpcode](.*)[/phpcode]",$php_code);
highlight_string($php_code);
echo $php_code;
?>

i'm not sure if that is how you escape [] is regular expressions, but that should work.

highlight_string will not highlight anything that isn't between the php start and stop tags (like <?php ?>), so you might have problems there too.

basically what you are looking for is the function highlight_string()

RTFM.