[Resolved] Passing Variables with BBCode

areid

I was wonder if I could pass variables from my database and load it into my page with BBCODE?

Here is what I tried to do...

in the mysql database I have this...

[var=firstname]

and this is the bbcode...

	$text = preg_replace("#\[var=([^ \"\n\r\t<]*?)\]#si", $var_open, $text);
$var_open = str_replace('{VAR}', '\\1', '${VAR}');

This only returns the variable name, not the actual variable

any help would be great!

Thanks!

Weedpacket

I think you want preg_match(), not preg_replace().

areid

Ok thanks, I'll give that a try!

areid

You know, I'm not getting it to work

$text = preg_match("/^([var=)?([^ \"\n\r\t<]*?)]/i", $text, matches);
$var = $matches[2];

preg_match("/([^ \"\n\r\t<]*?)/", $var, $matches);
echo "{$matches[0]}\n";

Weedpacket

preg_match() returns the number of times it matches (0 or 1) - you probably don't want to set $text to that.

The initial is anchoring the pattern to the very start of the string. If the [var=fullname] thing isn't there, it won't be matched.

I'll assume that the missing escape characters on [var= and ] is vBulletin messing things up again.

I'm not sure why you're capturing [var= or why you want it to be optional. So I'm rewriting that as a plain [var= here.

$text = "This is some text with a [var=fullname] thingy inside it.";
preg_match("/\\[var=([^\\"\\s<]*?)\\]/i", $text, $matches);
$var = $matches[1];
print_r($matches);

areid

This is it! That does what I want!

Thank you very much for all your help!