eregi_replace Question ...

[Gordon Werner]

I have a bunch of code that requires users to enter text.  To avoid certain problems, I restrict the tags they can use to mark up the text ... using bracket tags instead of html tags like

[b]...[/b]

which I then replace at runtime using eregi_replace.

 

this is not a problem for things like bold text ...

 

$description		=	eregi_replace('\[b]([^]]*)\[/b]', '<b>\1</b>', $description);

 

but how do I handle things like bullet lists where I want to let the user only have to enter

[*]

?

 

right now, all I do is this:

 

$description		=	eregi_replace('\[\*]', '<li>', $description);

 

but this makes the XHTML validation fail (no closing </li> tags) ...

 

is there an easy way that I can have the code auto-insert the </li> tag? and how would the above code snippet have to change?

 

Thanks

 

G.

[.josh]

The easiest thing to do would be to make the user mark it up like any other tag:

 

[*]something

 

that is how most forums do it.

 

p.s. - stop using posix functions (ereg**) they are deprecated and are removed from the php core as of v6.  Use the pcre functions (preg**) instead.