preg_replace questions

[robsgaming]

lets say $message contains some html code because a user typed some in for a message...

well, i dont want that html code to parse because it could possibly affect the dispaly of my site...

so...

$message = htmlspecialchars($message);

...appears to fix the problem

... but wait, $message contains <br /> tags that I DO want to be parsed as html.

so...

$message = preg_replace("'&lt;br[[:space:]]/&gt'", "<br>", $message);

I think would do it... but instead, the output looks like this:

timmy!!!
;
; AH!
;
;
; TIMMY!
;
;
; <a href="timmy">timmy!</a>

What is causing the semicolons (😉 ?

Thanks in advance.

Rob

[rontgoff]

ereg_replace ("<br />", "<br>", $message);
This should change the <br />.

[rontgoff]

you might have to remove the <br /> before doing htmlspecialchars

[robsgaming]

finally figured it out, just left out a simple (😉 semicolon 🙂
thanks anyways