effects in a text!!

[jonsof]

I am writting the user interface and i want rich text such bold italic or underline

I have made a javascript (prompts) like the one of the forum as /[B/]bold/[/B/]

So i tried to use the following code

$_POST['text']=ereg_replace("/[B/]","<b>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=ereg_replace("/[/B/]","</b>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=ereg_replace("/[I/]","<i>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=ereg_replace("/[/I]/","</i>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=ereg_replace("/[U/]","<u>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=ereg_replace("/[/U]/","</u>",$_POST['text']);

But the result is ok []ok[<<i>b>] []ok[<<i>b>] []ok[<<i>b>]

What have i made wrong?

[juschillinnow]

$POST['text']=str_replace("","<b>",$POST['text']);

try that

I think the forward slash was messing up the ereg_replace. Check the manual on that one I could be wrong. But the above should work.

[Weedpacket]

Either:

• Use backslashes instead of forward slashes to escape youre square brackets,

or

• use [man]str_replace[/man] instead. It's faster for this particular job, and takes arrays of search/replace pairs so that ou can do the whole lot with one call.

[jonsof]

Originally posted by juschillinnow
$POST['text']=str_replace("","<b>",$POST['text']);

try that

Yeah, that worked perfectly for me!!