Some pretty wild string manipulation.

[xconspirisist]

I'll get right to it. I am trying to make this;

there was a man called [fred].

Trying to make that, into this:

there was a man called <a href = "fred">fred</a>.

Here is what I have so far, I am not doing too well.

$peices = explode(" ", $page_content);

$new_page_content = "";
while ($i < sizeof($peices)) {

$block = $peices[$i];

if ($block[0] == "[") {

	$last = $block{strlen($block)-1};

	if ($last == "]") {

		echo " found a link !!";

		$block[$i] = str_replace("[" , "linkbegin::[" , $block);

		$block[$i] = str_replace("]" , "]linkend::" , $block);

	}

}

$new_page_content .= $block[$i];

$i++;

}


echo $page_content;

I've substituted the wanted html, with some other random text, just for the hell of it, I dont know why.

Many thanks for any help, in advance.

[paulnaj]

You might find that using regular expressions can be very handy, even if they are hard to get used to at first ...

<?php 
$page = "Hello [there], what's your [name]? My name is [Paul]? How [are] you";
$page = preg_replace("/\\[(\\w+)\\]/", "<a href = \"\\\\1\">\\\\1</a>", $page);

echo $page;
echo '<hr>'.htmlspecialchars($page);
?>

Paul.
😉

EDIT: Had to make changes so that the expression displayed properly