help with preg_replace

benja

Hi, i need to change a code like this

[ quote ]multiple line paragraph[ /quote ] (whitout spaces)

to something like

im using preg_replace, but im not very sure of how to do it.
Im doing something like this

$output = preg_replace("/[quote](.*)[\/quote]/","<TABLE><tr><td>\2</td></tr></table", $output);

Can someone help me with that code ??

Thanks in advance.

laserlight

Well, if you dont need to do any check for matching tags, then it might be simpler to use a [man]str_replace/man

benja

I need to use regular expresions, so tables dont get broken if a

 is not entered.

swr

You need to use the "s" modifier to make the "." (in ".") match newlines. Also, you probably want the "." to be non-greedy (".*?"). And I think you want \1 instead of \2.

Try this:

preg_replace("/[quote](.*?)[\/quote]/s","<table><tr><td>\1</td></tr></table>", $output);

Finally, don't use a table for non-tabular data. Use a div, or other reasonable tag (probably blockquote in this case)...

preg_replace("/[quote](.*?)[\/quote]/s","<blockquote class=\"quote\">\1</blockquote>", $output);

You can use CSS to make it look different.

benja

Thanks swr, it worked perfectly.

benja

I've got a new problem

Is not working recursibly

Example
[ quote] [ quote]text1 [ /quote]text2[ /quote]

I just get 1 quote transformed and the second one stays as untouched
Any ideas ??