[SOLVED] echo issue

[-entropyman]

Hello all,

 

Hopefully you can help me, it should be a pretty easy question.  I need some help with echo ().  more specifically, i need help getting something like this to print:

 

echo "Name is: [color=blue]$name[/color]";

 

As you can see I want the output so that it is ready to go to a forum.  I know I need to add something to the variable I just don't know what lol

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Lodius2000]

I would put the string to a str_replace() where you have massive arrays of what to be changed and what to change it to

[JasonLewis]

You'd be wanting to learn up on regular expressions and BB code.

 

$name = "Poohead_5152";
$str = "Name is: [color=blue]{$name}[/color]";

$str = preg_replace("/\[color=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/color\]/","<font color='\\1'>\\2</font>", $str);
echo $str;

[samshel]

please post some more code... $name is something that you have to pass to the forum.

[-entropyman]

hmmm let me clarify, apologies if i misled you.

 

I would like to have echo actually echo out the words (no actual colors):

 

Name is: [c olor=blue]Bill[/ color]  (without spaces in colors)

 

this way one can copy and paste that and it should work in the forum.  my issue is I do not know how to tell php to echo that out.

 

this:

echo "Name is: [color=blue]$name[/color]";

 

will just produce a blank page.  I believe I need to do something to my variable, for example place a dot in front of it or something

 

hope this helps

 

[samshel]

$name must be empty.

[-entropyman]

not too sure if i understood correctly mate but:

 

$name is set and works fine, just checked it and echoed it  

 

but still nothing, just a blank page when I use the

echo "Name is: [color=blue]$name[/color]";

 

[samshel]

we need more code to figure the problem...possible to post?

[JasonLewis]

Try it like this:

 

echo "Name is: [color=blue]{$name}[/color]";

[Darklink]

ProjectFear's code should work fine. There's no need for any more code samshel.

[JasonLewis]

Indeed it shall, and if you missed my post further above OP, I've quoted it for your benifit.

 

You'd be wanting to learn up on regular expressions and BB code.

 

$name = "Poohead_5152";
$str = "Name is: [color=blue]{$name}[/color]";

$str = preg_replace("/\[color=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/color\]/","<font color='\\1'>\\2</font>", $str);
echo $str;

[-entropyman]

Try it like this:

 

echo "Name is: [color=blue]{$name}[/color]";

 

that worked, thank you!