Im stuck with this string manipulation...

[richblend]

Hey all. Ive been wrestling with this for about 2 hours now, but i just cant do it, so im giving up and hoping someone can help me..

As part of a content management system, i want the user to enter in hyperlinks in a simpler way. the syntax i want to use is this...

[link="http://www.website.com" name="Click here for my site"]

which of course needs to be formatted so it reads:

<a href="http://www.website.com">Click here for my site</a>

Ive tried a bunch of stuff using ereg() and str_replace() and a few other things but i just cant get it to work. I managed to get it if there is only one link in teh text, but it goes wrong if someone wants to use more than one link. Anyone help?

Thanks.

[mrhappiness]

$text = '[link="http://www.website.com" name="Click here for my site"]';
$link = preg_replace('%\\[link="(.*)" name="(.*)"\\]%siU', '<a href="$1">$2</a>', $text);
echo $link;

check this out

[richblend]

aha. nice one man, works a treat. i tried using preg_replace but i was rubbish, didnt know about the $1, $2 stuff.

thanks a bunch.