preg_replace

[jbrandt]

Here is a script that I have that obviously does not work... Is there a way around this to make it work??

<?php

$tags['b'] = 'strong';
$tags['i'] = 'em';
$tags['tt'] = 'pre';

$html = '<tt>this</tt> is <b>some</b> <i>text</i>';

$html = preg_replace ('/(<)([A-Za-z]+)(>)/', '<' . $tags['$2'] . '>', $html);

echo $html;

?>

Thanks!!!

[suntra]

The problem is that you wrote $tags['$2'], and PHP thinks you want to call the index '$2' in the $tags array...

You have to use the "e" modifier...

$html = preg_replace ('/(<)([A-Za-z]+)(>)/e', '"<" . $tags["$2"] . ">"', $html);

Also, I noticed this will only affect opening tags, not closing tags... so use this :

$html = preg_replace ('/(<)(\/?)([A-Za-z]+)(>)/e', '"<$2" . $tags["$3"] . ">"', $html);

[NogDog]

$html = '<tt>this</tt> is <b class="class">some</B> <I id="id">text</i>';
$tags = array(
   '#<(/?)b(\s[^>]*)?>#i' => '<\\1strong\\2>',
   '#<(/?)i(\s[^>]*)?>#i' => '<\\1em\\2>',
   '#<(/?)tt(\s[^>]*)?>#i' => '<\\1pre\\2>'
);
$html = preg_replace(array_keys($tags), $tags, $html);
echo $html;

[jbrandt]

Actually, I wasn't really trying to make an "HTML-Tag Converter" at all, but this was just a quit example of the $tags['$4'] problem.

Thanks very much for your help!!!

• Jared

[suntra]

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