a bug with str_replace and hyperlinks?

[lemist]

i'm trying to use str_replace on a document that contains hyperlinks. If i replace a string that does not have a hyperlink under it, it will replace it no problem, but everything above hyperlinks will not be replaced. is this a bug? or am i just doing something wrong here? what alternatives to str_replace could i use?

this is my code:
include($updatepath);
$open = fopen($updatepath, "r");
$saved = fread($open, filesize($updatepath));
fclose($open);

$new = str_replace("$entry[$num]", "$newentry", $saved);
echo($new);

$num is set earlier on in the script, and $entry is from the include.

[khaine]

You may need to post all of the code for this one. I am not sure I fully understand what your problem is. Is it that until you hit a hyperlink the str_replace works and after that it stops working??

[lemist]

no. it won't work if the string i am try to replace is between two hyperlinks, or between a hyperlink and the beginning of the file, so after the last hyperlink in a file, it will replace strings, but not before.

$toedit is set beforehand with a for loop

include("config.txt");
include($updatepath); #set in config.txt
$open = fopen($updatepath, "r");
$saved = fread($open, filesize($updatepath));
fclose($open);
$newpost = str_replace($post[$toedit], $newmessage, $saved);
$newpost = str_replace($nizame[$toedit], $newname, $newpost);
$open = fopen($updatepath, "w");
fwrite($open, $newpost);
fclose($open);

that's basically it.

[lemist]

oh, i figured it out, nevermind. I needed an addslashes(). thanks anyway.