if NOT statement

[Leao]

Hi everyone at site point,

I'm trying to run the preg_replace function on a string but only if the variable $animal DOESN'T = "sheep". The problem is that the conditional statement I'm using (see below) doesn't run the function at all, even if the variable $animal equals something other than "sheep".

if(!$animal=="sheep") {$formattedtext = preg_replace("/sheep/", "<a href='http://www.mysite.com/index.php?animal=sheep' class='littlelinks'>sheep</a>", $formattedtext, 1);}

Any ideas?

Many, many thanks, Leao

[cranial-bore]

if($animal != "sheep") {}

Also, there is no need to use regular expressions if you are matching a literal string.
Use str_replace instead.

[Leao]

Many thanks mr cranial-bore. Problem solved.

I'm using the preg_replace function because I want to replace only the first instance of the word "sheep". str_replace doesn't give me the option to do this. Is the preg_replace function really so slow? Doesn't seem so to me.

Leao