preg_replace and special characters...

Hey all,

I'm trying to use my own type of markup language and have PHP change it to HTML.

So this:

Description[eimg]

would be changed to this:

So, why doesn't this work?

$string="Description[eimg]\n\nDescription2[eimg]";
preg_replace("/[img=(.+)](.+)[eimg]/U","<img src=\"\1\" alt=\"\2\">", $string);

When the following is displayed in HTML, I'm getting the string itself and not an image.

All help is highly appreciated!!

Perhaps because you need to assign the results of the preg_replace to something?

How about . . . .
$string = preg_replace("your reg exp","replacement",$string);

I'm sorry...that line should read:

preg_replace("/[img=(.+)](.+)[eimg]/U","<img src=\"\1\" alt=\"\2\">", $string);

(I forgot to escape [eimg])...

Also, I've tried not escaping the [, escaping both [ and ], but I just can't get it to work...

Thanks for your help, DLB. Unfortunately, that didn't work. It changed $string to 0. It apparently doesn't work like eregi_replace().

I would use eregi_replace, but it's greedy. If I want to put more than one image on a page, it doesn't work correctly.

It worked. I accidentally typed preg_match instead of replace.

THANKS SO MUCH!!!