[Resolved] repetitative regular expression

[leatherback]

Hi,

I am working on getting a function working which is supposed to find lists in user inputted text, and replace those with HTML list tags.

Userdefined lists:
[lijst]
blablabla
blablablablaaa
[/lijst]

which is supposed to become

<ul>
<li> blablabla</li>
<li> blablablablaa</li>
</ul>

The function below works, but only if just one list is present, which may have a nested list. How do I convert this into a function which will match all lists in the inpyut text? Any ideas?

function createlist($instring)  //Lijsten herkend door: [lijst][/lijst] tags en * voor elk element
  {
  $pattern = "'(\<br \/>|<br>){0,}\s*\[lijst]\s{0,}\*(.*?)\[/lijst\]'si";
  $pattern2 = "'\[lijst]\s{0,}</li>(.*?)\[/lijst\]'si";
  $pattern3 = "'(\<br>|\<br \/>)\s*(<\/li>)'";
  $text = preg_replace($pattern, "<ul><li>\\2</li></ul>", $instring);
  $text = str_replace('*', '</li><li>', $text);
  $text = preg_replace($pattern2, "</li><ul>\\1</li></ul>", $text);
  $text = preg_replace($pattern3, "</li>", $text);
  return $text;
}

[poison]

like this ?

$data='[lijst] 
 * blablabla 
 * blablablablaaa 
	[lijst] 
 	* blablabla 
 	* blablablablaaa 
 	[/lijst] 
 [/lijst] ';
$data=preg_replace('/\[(\/?)lijst\]/smi', '<$1ul>', $data);
$data=preg_replace('/^\s*?\*(.*?)$/mi', '<li>$1</li>', $data);
echo ($data);

output:

<ul> 
<li> blablabla </li>
<li> blablablablaaa </li>
	<ul> 
<li> blablabla </li>
<li> blablablablaaa </li>
 	</ul> 
 </ul> 

regards

[leatherback]

Hey Poison,

Looks great!

This almost does exactly what I was trying to do (Fortunately there are still some things which do not work, so I have not been fiddling with this for days for nothing 😃 ) But yes!
The /smi is the special trick, I suppose?

I think I can get it from here.

Thx again!

J.