[Resolved] Can't get my ereg to work

[ChaKal_On3]

cheers guys, first time on that board, hope you'll be helpfull 🙂

I'm actually coding my personnal BB code parser, which works for the moment, but i'd like to optimize it a bit

I've got 3 methods for bold, underline and italic strings

	private function convertBold()	{					
		$this->str2parse = preg_replace("/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/", "<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\\1</span>", $this->str2parse);			
	}
	private function convertItalic()	{					
		$this->str2parse = preg_replace("/\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/", "<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">\\1</span>", $this->str2parse);			
	}
	private function convertUnderline()	{					
		$this->str2parse = preg_replace("/\[u\](.*?)\[\/u\]/", "<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">\\1</span>", $this->str2parse);			
	}				

It works, but i'd like to make only one method.

So i thought abouut the ereg

	private function convertBasics()	{
		if (ereg("\[(u|i|b)\](.+)\[\/\\1\]", $this->str2parse, $to))
			print_r($to);
	}

I'll then take $to[0] make a switch to apply my CSS style on it.
But i just can't get my ereg to match a simple string like

without the

[b*]test[/b*]

I really wonder where the problem is.

Btw, i've tryed this regular expression in Kodos and it worked:rolleyes:

[Weedpacket]

Using ereg() won't make your job simpler....

function convertBasics()
{	$bb2style = array(
		'b'=>'font-weight:bold',
		'i'=>'font-style:italic',
		'u'=>'text-decoration:underline'
	);
	$this->str2parse = preg_replace(
	'#\\[([bui])\\](.*?)\\[/\\\\1\\]#eis',
	"'<span style=\\"'.\\$bb2style['$1'].'\\">$2</span>'",
	$this->str2parse);
}

But note that you may have to run this more than once in the case of [b][u]nested markup[/u][/b].

[ChaKal_On3]

good one, thanks 🙂