Copy String between tags

mrbcoelho

I'm doing a script that replaces tags on a string to html tags.

When inserting an image the user puts «img»path/to/image.gif«/img».

I need to copy to another string (or array), the text between «img» and «/img» to use in the <a href..> tag.

Anyone can help me doing this.

Thanks

Pittperson

Originally posted by mrbcoelho
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I'm doing a script that replaces tags on a string to html tags.

When inserting an image the user puts .

I need to copy to another string (or array), the text between to use in the <a href..> tag.

Anyone can help me doing this.

Thanks

Is this using a form or not? I'll assume you want to search the code and replace img and /img. str_replace() ( http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php )

mrbcoelho

Thanks for your awser.

I read the string from an MySql database table, and yes I want to replace the img tags by html tags, but I need the part of the string between img tags.

Thanks

thegraham

preg_match is the function you are looking for. Something like

<?php
// change $image_variable to whatever variable your image string is : )
preg_match('/<<img>>(.*?)<<img>>/', $image_variable, $output);
// $output[1] is the matched string
echo("<img src=\"".$output[1]."\" />");
?>

Thomas

uniflare

Or you could just use

$str = str_replace("<<img>>","<a href=\"",$str);
$str = str_replace("<</img>>","\">Img Link</a>$str);