ereg_replace ??

Anon

I\'m building a website for my family. And since it is a page where we want to update our page without any need for everyone to know HTML and FTP and stuff I have inserted the page in mySQL.

I still want my family to make changes to the text like they do when they use WORD.
So I made up Java buttons with my own code like. [BOLD] [/BOLD] and so on.

Now I need to convert them to ordinary HTML in the database so that I can bring the text out right on the website...

Code:

$melding = ereg_replace(\"[BOLD]\", \"<b>\", $melding);
$melding = ereg_replace(\"[/BOLD]\", \"</b>\", $melding);

I have som problems figuring out how to convert the [Link] [/Link] or [Link=url]text [/Link] and [Image] [/Image] tags.

Can someone help me out here ??

khaine

If I remeber right it is

$bits=explode("\"", $lines[$temp]);
$bobs=explode(",", $bits[1]);
$bits[0]=str_replace("link\", "", $bits[0]);
$lines[$temp]=$bits[0];
$lines[$temp].="<A href=\"http://".$bobs[0]."\">".substr($bobs[1],0,-1)."</A>";
$lines[$temp].=$bits[2];

You would pass the link as

link"www.website.com,click me"

the first entry is the web address the second is the text to make into a link.

If you are still having problems I have a full editor system set up that can handle tables, links, images, different colors etc.

Mark.

Anon

Personally, I prefer preg_replace - it's faster.

One of the tricky bits (in both preg and ereg functions) is that '[' and ']' have special meanings, so they have to be escaped with backslashes.

$melding=preg_replace('#[(/?)BOLD]#', '<\1b>', $melding);

Using (/?) and \1 means that this one line will take match both [BOLD] and [/BOLD], and replace it with the appropriate opening or closing tag. The # are just there to indicate where the regexp begins and ends. You can do it with two preg_replaces, as you do for the ereg_examples, but then you'd be better off using str_replace().

For [Link] and [Image] pseudotags, things are slightly trickier what with the attributes, but...

$melding=preg_replace('#[Image=(.+?)]#', '<img src="\1">', $melding);

Which grabs the bit between the '=' and the ']' of the [Image] pseudotag and sticks it into an <img> opening tag.

Oh, and the closing tag:
$melding=preg_replace('#[/Image]#', '</img>', $melding);

Likewise for [Link].