[RESOLVED] Please help me figure this out

Sayian

Im trying to strip al text from a string, that contains BB quote blocks.

For instance ...


$string = "[quote=user on someday at sometime]quoted text[quote=user at someday at sometime]more text[/quote][/quote] unquoted text";

I need the output of that string, to only be "Unquoted Text" ...

Just the text at the end, thats not quoted should remain. Basically i need it to strip all text inside quote blocks, leaving the text that isnt in quote blocks, in this case "Unquoted text"

Ive tried ..

$row['message'] = ereg_replace("[(.*)]", "", $row['message']);

but if any other bbcode is in the string like say then it strips the entire string, even Unquoted text at the end, which is what im aiming for it to keep.

Please help me with this, thank you.

bradgrafelman

Like this?

$string = "[quote=user on someday at sometime]quoted text[quote=user at someday at sometime]more text[/quote][/quote] unquoted text"; 

$pattern = '@(\[.+\].+\[/.+\])@si';
$replacement = '';

echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

Sayian

Brad, thank you for your help.

Im still running into a problem tho.


$string = '[quote=test on 04/14/06 @ 10:16 AM]test[/quote]

[font=Arial]scary.[/font]';

Its stripping the entire string in that example.

It should only remove, the text in between any quote blocks.

In this case,


$string = [font=Aria]scary.[/font]';

Should be left. Ive tried everything i know, is their anything else we could try to fix this?

bradgrafelman

Ah, I misread your post. I thought you wanted to remove ANY quote blocks...

Try this

$pattern = '@(\[quote.+\].+\[/quote\])@si';

Sayian

ahhh .. yes that did the trick.

All this time i was using ereg_replace .. and i should of been trying to match using preg ..

Thanks again brad.