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dominant

I am making a color option like the one in this forum so i have a suntaxt like this /[/color:<<color>>/]text[/color/]. The <<color>> comes from a javascript.

Now i am trying this syntax

$_POST['text']=str_replace ("[COLOR:*]","<font color=*>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=str_replace ("[/COLOR]","</font>",$_POST['text']);

But it doesn't work 🙁 why?

ir4z0r

str_replace doesn't interprete the * wildcard

you shouldn't save the output in a $_POST-var anyway

have a look at ereg_replace() and preg_replace() and use regular expressions

dominant

So how can my code transformed?

dominant

Any other ideas?

dominant

i used the following syntax

$_POST['text']=preg_replace ("[COLOR:[^>]*?]","<font color=$3>",$_POST['text']);
$_POST['text']=str_replace ("[/COLOR]","</font>",$_POST['text']);

And the result is : [<font color=>green] text </font>

What have i to fix?

xblue

if you need to use regular expressions, I'd recommend to get into the basics.

meta-characters such as [ or ] need to be escaped if you want to match them literally.
$3 is a backreference that refers to whatever was matched by the subpattern enclosed in the 3rd set of parentheses. unfortunately, you don't have parentheses in your pattern, so it won't work.

dominant

Do you know any relevant code to work for me?