preg replace with variables....I'm missing something

bostonmacosx

I have a loop that loops through and sets $q to certian tags in an HTML documet such as body UL etc etc. It also sets $a to a list of styles for that tag.

There are no <> in the $q variable.

What I need to do is for each loop is change.

<BODY> into <BODY style="color: #000000;" > etc etc

I was going to do for each loop something like

$templatein = preg_replace('/<$q/','<$q style=\"$a\"',$templatein);

just can't seem to get it to work. Should be pretty str8 forward. I'm just new to PCRE.

Thanks
Robert

toplay

You just forgot to use double quotes instead of single quotes.

$templatein = preg_replace("/<$q/", "<$q style=\"$a\"", $templatein);

or with single quotes you would have to do:

$templatein = preg_replace('/<' . $q . '/', '<' . $q . ' style="' . $a . '"', $templatein);

hth.