Preg_replace help please

Pigmaster

Hello all,

I am just trying to run a simple fin/replace action on a string with preg_replace, but after several hours I still can not get it to work.

Keep geting

Warning: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in d:\rootwww\htdocs\pigmaster\news.htm on line 237

I want to insert a url around the text "Brook Farm near Tamworth" in the string $NewsArticle

Any ideas?

$NewsArticle ="Hello, we are flying from Brook Farm near Tamworth today";

preg_replace ("Brook Farm near Tamworth", "<a href=\"http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=europe&X=417000&Y=300000&scale=25000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&coordsys=gb&db=&overviewmap=&scale=25000&right.x=7&right.y=17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brook Farm near Tamworth</strong></a>", $NewsArticle);

echo $NewsArticle;

Code_guy

You need to use a non alphanumeric delimiter at the begining and end of the regular expression. In perl usualy / is used.

also assign the return value of preg_replace to a variable

$NewsArticle ="Hello, we are flying from Brook Farm near Tamworth today"; 

$test = preg_replace ("/Brook Farm near Tamworth/", "<a href=\"http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=europe&X=417000&Y=300000&scale=25000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&coordsys=gb&db=&overviewmap=&scale=25000&right.x=7&right.y=17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brook Farm near Tamworth</strong></a>", $NewsArticle); 

echo $test;

hand

<?
$NewsArticle ="Hello, we are flying from Brook Farm near Tamworth today"; 
$NewsArticle = ereg_replace ("Brook Farm near Tamworth", "<a href=\"http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=europe&X=417000&Y=300000&scale=25000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&coordsys=gb&db=&overviewmap=&scale=25000&right.x=7&right.y=17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brook Farm near Tamworth</strong></a>", $NewsArticle); 
echo "$NewsArticle<br>\n";
// or
$NewsArticle ="Hello, we are flying from Brook Farm near Tamworth today"; 
$NewsArticle = str_replace  ("Brook Farm near Tamworth", "<a href=\"http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=europe&X=417000&Y=300000&scale=25000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&coordsys=gb&db=&overviewmap=&scale=25000&right.x=7&right.y=17\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brook Farm near Tamworth</strong></a>", $NewsArticle); 
echo "$NewsArticle<br>\n";