BBCode/RegEx problem

[Dynasty1002]

I'm trying to implement a BBCode style set of tags for one of my scripts, but I can't get it to replace things properly, here's the code I use:

$test = "[link=\"http://www.april-showers.com\"]APRIL SHOWERS[/link][newline]";
$test .= "[link=\"http://www.pie.com\"]PIE.COM[/link][newline]";
$test .= "[img=\"groovy.gif\"]Groovy[/img]";

$patterns[0] = "/\[link=\"(.*)\"\]/";
$patterns[1] = "/\[\/link\]/";
$patterns[2] = "/\[img=\"(.*)\"\](.*)/";
$patterns[3] = "/\[\/img\]/";
$patterns[4] = "/\[newline\]/";

$replacements[0] = "<a href=\"\\1\">";
$replacements[1] = "</a>\n";
$replacements[2] = "<img src=\"\\1\" alt=\"\\2\">";
$replacements[3] = "</img>\n";
$replacements[4] = "\n<br>\n";

$output = preg_replace( $patterns, $replacements, $test);

echo $output;

Obviously the $test variable is there to test I got the code right, as far as I can tell the [newline] tag works, the [/img] and [/link] tags work, but the others go horribly wrong.

Any help would be appreciated. 🙂

[Weedpacket]

I reckon you should replace . with .?. Also, to make your code easier for you to read, use single quotes around your strings - that will save you having to escape all your double quotes.

[Dynasty1002]

Wow, that worked. Cheers. 😃