[Resolved] changing [url] to <a href> problem

[tuf-web_co_uk]

<?
$pattern2 = '#\[url2\s*=\s*(\w+://[^\]]+)\](.+?)\[/url2]#';
$replacement2 = '<a href="\1" target="_BLANK" class=\"user\">\2</a>';
$pattern = '#\[url\s*=\s*(\w+://[^\]]+)\](.+?)\[/url]#';
$replacement = '<a href="\1" class=\"user\">\2</a>';

$string = preg_replace($pattern,$replacement,$string);
$string = preg_replace($pattern2,$replacement2,$string);
?>

what i basically want to know is why this doesnt work if i entered

email[/url]

*without the space between url

[Weedpacket]

Try that in [code] tags - this board mangles regexps.

[tuf-web_co_uk]

i want to use that script on my site which works fine with normal web addresses but not email addresses

i dont understand what you have said, well i kind of do but i dont think its going to help me on my website :S i'm confused

[piersk]

Why not use the YABBSE way of doing it and use

[email][e-mail][/email]

or

[email=[e-mail]]email me[/email]

Note to Weed: [ code ] doesn't work, you need to use [ php ]

[tuf-web_co_uk]

what code would i need to change [email] into <a href=mailto

??

thanks for any suggestions

[tuf-web_co_uk]

found it nevermind :mad:

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by piersk
Note to Weed: [ code ] doesn't work, you need to use [ php ]

Denied: &#91;code] doesn't do syntax highlighting, of course, it's just a string so it's going to be red anyway. More important is the fact that it doesn't clobber just about all of the backslashes in a regexp.