patterns

goofie

i was trying to replace "🙂" with an image with the preg_replace-function
with this pattern: "/([%s])(.*)/s"
but when i run it, it replaces all : and ) with an image so if you type 🙂 it will replace it with two images

how should the pattern be(if this is possible to do with preg_replace)

if its not possible to do with preg_replace. with wich function should i do it then and how?

planetsim

try str_replace

GSHelpBoy

preg_replace('/(:\))/', '<image alt="Smile" src="smile.gif" />', $message);

Something like that might work.

goofie

Originally posted by GSHelpBoy
preg_replace('/(:\))/', '<image alt="Smile" src="smile.gif" />', $message);
Something like that might work. [/B]

Warning: Compilation failed: unmatched parentheses at offset 3 in c:\phpdev5\www\fbb\tools.php on line 229

229 is the line where the preg_replace is.

ednark

( and ) are special characters .....

they need to be escaped... i think originally GSHelpBoy did quote them... but for this forum... you need two slashes for one to appear on screen, so his just showed up wrong

now for what you are doing you don't need a regular expression, look into [man]str_replace[/man]....

check out this example (for yours change 8=<img /> and }=<img />:

<?php
# happy faces
header('Content-type: text/plain');

$string = ' :( :) :) :):) :( ';

$replace = '8}';

$pregex = '/:\\)/';
$preg_string = preg_replace( $pregex, $replace, $string );

$find = ':)';
$str_string = str_replace( $find, $replace, $string );

print $preg_string;
print $str_string;

?>