ereg_replace

[LemonZone]

Hi,

i have the code:

$text = ereg_replace(
  "\[T=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9!&%#?,'=:~]+)]".
  "([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~]+)\[/T]",
  "<table width="50%" border="6" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolorlight="#000066" bordercolordark="#000066" align="center"><tr bgcolor="#000066"><td><div align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6" color="#FFFFFF"><b>\\1</b></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"></font></div></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote><div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">//2</font></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>", $text); 

andit dosen't work...anyideas/

by the way, i'm not an expert with ereg replace, and this coide was adapted from kevins php tutorial.

[LemonZone]

WELL, it dosent give me a parse error any more, but it just says [T=Title text]TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTesingtthe blok quote function [/T]

[aspen]

are you escaping all the quotes?

What are you trying to accomplish with it?

[LemonZone]

I Changed the code so that it is ' instead of " wherever there is one

i'm trying to create a table that can contain a quote

something like this

+---------------------+
| USER TEXT HERE!!!!! |
+---------------------+
| Then, in here some |
| Form of user |
| specified text |
| |
+---------------------+

i know its not very clear, but i want it to have the code:

[T=Title of Table]Text inside the table, for instance a quote[/T]

Thanks,
Alex

[aspen]

so you're parsing

[T=Title of Table]Text inside the table, for instance a quote[/T]

and want to replace it with your table code?


Well your problem is with the []'s

[]'s are reserved for use in regular expressions.

you need to escape them.

[LemonZone]

//blockquote thingys
$text = ereg_replace(
  "\[T=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9!&%#?,'=:~]+)]".
  "([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~]+)\[/T]",
  "<table width='50%' border='6' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' bordercolorlight='#000066' bordercolordark='#000066' align='center'>tr bgcolor='#000066'><td><div align='center'><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='6' color='#FFFFFF'><b>\\2</b></font><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='6'></font></div></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote><div align='left'><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>//1</font></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>",$text); 

Still dosent work.

[aspen]

doesn't look escaped to me.

need to escape them in the expression too.

you can also do this instead.

do a str_replace on your string and replace them with codes

[ = 99Z

] = 99Q

etc

then change your regular expression accordingly.

[LemonZone]

This is getting on my nerves...somehwere between editplus and sitepoint, they dissapeared

but they are there....and it dosen't work

[aspen]

did you escape them in the text you are parsing too?

but honestly this is supposed to work but when I had to do this same thing I couldn't get it either so I used the str_replace method.

[Paul S]

Hey LemonZone, you need

1) Escape the opening brackets,

"\[T=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9!&%#?,'=:~]+)]([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~]+)\[/T]"

2) Include the space in your searching pattern, ie,

([ -_./a-zA-Z0-9!&%#?,'=:~]+)

(Note the blank space after the [ )

Hope this works for you (works for me )