preg_replace question ...

[Gordon Werner]

Good morning.

 

If I want a user to be able to enter simple markup into a text field using [tag]xyz[/tag] format so that I can convert it on display to <tag>xyz</tag> format, how do I formulate the preg_replace expressions?

 

i.e.

[b]some text[/b]
[i]some text[/i]
[u]some text[/u]
[url]http://www.www.com[/url]
[email][email protected][/email]
[img=http://www.com/image.jpg]

etc ...

 

should become:

 

<b>some text</b>
<i>some text</i>
<u>some text</u>
<a href="http://www.www.com">http://www.www.com</a>
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
<img src="http://www.com/image.jpg" />

etc ...

 

also if I want the user to be able to enter the following:

 

[tm]
[sm]
[r]
[c] 

 

and have the display change those tags to the ascii characters ... would str_replace be the best way to handle those? or would preg_replace also work?

 

Any help would be appreciated as I am trying to learn this stuff and haven't found any good examples that are clear to a beginner.

 

Thanks

 

G.

[Ken2k7]

preg_replace will work. It can take in arrays as arguments so you can just put up 2 arrays. First array is the regexp and the second array is the replacement. So for example:

 

$bb = array(
     '#\[b\](.+?)\[/b\]#i',
     '#\[i\](.+?)\[/i\]#i',
);

$replacement = array(
     '<b>$1</b>',
     '<i>$1</i>',
);

$new_str = preg_replace($bb, $replacement, $str);

[Psycho]

Here's something I have laying around

 

<?php

//bbcode

$patterns = array(

  //BB Code
  "/\[[b]\](.*?)\[\/b\]/is",
  "/\[[i]\](.*?)\[\/i\]/is",
  "/\[[u]\](.*?)\[\/u\]/is",
  "/\[[s]\](.*?)\[\/s\]/is",
  "/\[marquee\](.*?)\[\/marquee\]/is",
  "/\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is",
  "/\[url=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/is",
  "/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/is",
  "/\[quote\](.*?)\[\/quote\]/is",
  "/\[code\](.*?)\[\/code\]/is",
  "/\[(size|color)=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/\\1\]/is",
  "/\[br\]/i",

  //Emoticons
  "/ \:\) /",
  "/ \:\( /",
  "/ \ /",
  "/ \ /",
  "/ \:\| /",
  "/ \ /",
  "/ \:\? /",
  "/ \;\) /");

$replacements = array(

  //BB Code
  "<b>\\1</b>",
  "<i>\\1</i>",
  "<u>\\1</u>",
  "<s>\\1</s>",
  "<marquee>\\1</marquee>",
  "<a href=\"\\1\">\\1</a>",
  "<a href=\"\\1\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>",
  "<img border=\"0\" src=\"\\1\">",
  "<div><b>Quote:</b> <i>\\1</i></div>",
  "<br /><b>Code:</b><br /><div style=\"overflow:auto;\"><xmp>\\1</xmp></div><br />",
  "<font \\1=\"\\2\">\\3</font>",
  "<br />",

  //Emoticons
  " <img src=\"smilies/happy.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/angry.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/omg.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/tounge.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/dry.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/biggrin.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/confused.gif\" border=\"0\"> ",
  " <img src=\"smilies/wink.gif\" border=\"0\"> "
);

$string = "[b]This is bold text[/b] [i]this is italic text[/i] [b][i]This is bold, italic text[/b][/i]";

$result = preg_replace($patterns,$replacements,$string);

echo $result;

?>[/ode]

[Gordon Werner]

thanks folks for the help!