eregi_replace

[darkfunkel]

I have looked in search for some information but couldn't find anything of great help. I have been having a problem, I have made a function to make a sort of BBcode but I cannot get it to work. All I get is a blank screen

<?
//assigning functions


//The H4L code is here...
//this is the toned down HTML code made by the H4L team
function h4lcode($text) {
$part = eregi_replace( "[LINK]",'<a href="', $text);
$part = eregi_replace( "[CENTER]", '" >', $text);
$part = eregi_replace( "[/LINK]", "</a>", $text);
return($part);
}
//Just hope this works.

$final = h4lcode($text);
print $final
?>

Any idea what is wrong? any help is apreciated

[tsinka]

Hi,

can you give me an example of a source string and the expected result ?

[delphi]

Hi dark,

I was playing with this, and pretty much was able to get it working. I don't know the desired effect, but I was able to get some substiutions.

I see a few problems here.

1. You need to escape your bracket characters in the reg-ex expression. If not, then the function will see this as a group of characters, and will substitute each time it see an "L", "I", "N", or "K". Since the brackets are part of the string, you must use "[" and "]" accordingly. You could probably use the quotemeta function to do this as well, if you don't want to escape the all the characters by hand.

2. Bigger problem... You have a variable "$part" that is returning the result. But look what is happening here. You are replacing $part EACH time you call the succeeding eregi function. I believe you're going to have to pass $part as the string, like this:

$part = eregi_replace(arg1, arg2, $text);
$part = eregi_replace(arg1, arg2, $part);
$part = eregi_replace(arg1, arg2, $part);

*edited to fix my mistake... there is no concat needed.

That should work for you.

d