Need to get "<3" converted over

[Monkuar]

This code WORKS FINE:

 

'#(?<!\w):thumbsup:(?!\w)#i'         => '<img src=html/emoticons/thumbsup.gif alt=":thumbsup\:">',

 

so Whenever I do :thumbsup: in my post, it makes the thumbsup smiley! it works nice! but I need the following to work:

 

	'#(?<!\w)<3(?!\w)#i'         => '<img src=html/emoticons/heart2.gif alt="<3">',

 

See how I want to type "<3" to get my heart2.gif showing? For some reason it's not passing through and displays nothing,  I tried to do <\3 but it still won't work, any ideas?  I need to escape somethiing because of the "<" character is messing me all up.

 

Thanks for the help

[ManiacDan]

Works for me:

 

 

php > $a = "I <3 PHP";
php > echo preg_replace('#(?<!\w)<3(?!\w)#i', '{{HEART}}', $a);
I {{HEART}} PHP
php > 

-Dan

[Monkuar]

Works for me:

 

 

php > $a = "I <3 PHP";
php > echo preg_replace('#(?<!\w)<3(?!\w)#i', '{{HEART}}', $a);
I {{HEART}} PHP
php > 

-Dan

 

Hmm Sir, let  me show you my full function then maybe will help, cause I copied your "#(?<!\w)<3(?!\w)#i" and it's not working still.

 

Here you go mate:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$smilies=array 
    ( 
				'#(?<!\w):thumbsup:(?!\w)#i'         => '<img src=html/emoticons/thumbsup.gif alt=":thumbsup\:">',
					'#(?<!\w)<3(?!\w)#i'         => '<img src=html/emoticons/heart2.gif alt="<3">',
    ); 

      $txt=preg_replace(array_keys($smilies), array_values($smilies), $txt,5);

 

 

It's not replacing the <3.... really dunno what is problem, is it because of the array_keys?

[ManiacDan]

The 5 in your preg_replace means "only do it 5 times."  Do you have 5 :thumbsup: before the heart?  Your function (which is not a function) works for me when I copy/paste it.

 

-Dan

[Monkuar]

The 5 in your preg_replace means "only do it 5 times."  Do you have 5 :thumbsup: before the heart?  Your function (which is not a function) works for me when I copy/paste it.

 

-Dan

 

Nope, I can remove the 5 and it's still the same.

 

I am really stumped on this, could you look over it 1 more time, please, how is it working for you? you're not using arraY_keys like me though, try my function at home and see if it works.

[ManiacDan]

I copied and pasted your 2 lines of code (which again, is not a function) into a document and it worked. 

 

$txt = "I <3 PHP it's the best!  :thumbsup: WOO!";
$smilies=array 
    ( 
				'#(?<!\w):thumbsup:(?!\w)#i'         => '<img src=html/emoticons/thumbsup.gif alt=":thumbsup\:">',
					'#(?<!\w)<3(?!\w)#i'         => '<img src=html/emoticons/heart2.gif alt="<3">',
    ); 

      $txt=preg_replace(array_keys($smilies), array_values($smilies), $txt,5);


echo $txt;

This outputs:

I <img src=html/emoticons/heart2.gif alt="<3"> PHP it's the best!  <img src=html/emoticons/thumbsup.gif alt=":thumbsup\:"> WOO!

There's not much more I can tell you.  Are you looking at the HTML source?

[joe92]

Not sure on solving this specific problem, however there is absolutely no point in over complicating your regex by using (?<!\w) and (?!\w).

 

If you need to make sure your pattern is not contained within a word, use the word boundaries metacharacter. This makes sure it is matching a whole word only. Yours would become:

'#\b<3\b#i'

 

Also, the i modifier means case-insensitive. There is absolutely no point in using it for this pattern. A 3 does not have a lower or upper case, neither does a <.

'#\b<3\b#'

[Monkuar]

Wow this is really frustrating, Thank you both for your replies, unfortunately it's still not going through.

 

 

I even tried:

 

'#\b=]\b#i'

 

a smiley =] and it works fine

 

but whenever I put in the < character it seems it does not work, it accepts every other character though, do you think i need to have something in php to enable something like this?

 

 

I do have this code that is below this code:

 

$txt = preg_replace("/&#([0-9]+);/s", "&#\\1;", $txt );

 

But I removed it just cause, and  hell it's still not reading my "<3" I can use the LETTER "5" and it works, but not "<3" anything with "< or >" just messes it up and doesn't go through, I am simply dumbfounded

[Pikachu2000]

You aren't using htmlentities or htmlspecialchars on the string before the preg_replace are you?

[ManiacDan]

Ok, you seem to be steadfastly using the wrong words here, but I'm going to skip right over that to repeat my question:

 

ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE HTML SOURCE?

 

Also, like Pikachu said, are you doing anything aside from what you said you've done (and what I've demonstrated)?  HTML entities, escaping, str_replace, anything?  I copied and pasted what you gave me and it worked.

 

I'll repeat:  I took what you posted.  Character for character.  Exactly zero changes.  It worked.

 

Also note that your INPUT might not contain the < character.  THAT may be run through htmlspecialchars or something.  Note that the < is hard-coded in my string.

 

-Dan

[Monkuar]

Ok, you seem to be steadfastly using the wrong words here, but I'm going to skip right over that to repeat my question:

 

ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE HTML SOURCE?

 

Also, like Pikachu said, are you doing anything aside from what you said you've done (and what I've demonstrated)?  HTML entities, escaping, str_replace, anything?  I copied and pasted what you gave me and it worked.

 

I'll repeat:  I took what you posted.  Character for character.  Exactly zero changes.  It worked.

 

Also note that your INPUT might not contain the < character.  THAT may be run through htmlspecialchars or something.  Note that the < is hard-coded in my string.

 

-Dan

 

Hey, I found this in some other code somewhere else:

 

 $val = str_replace( "<"            , "<"          , $val );

 

I guess this was the culprit.. wow Facepalm me, I was looking at the source and it had the characters < I was thinking to myself, does it auto convert into that normally? Doesn't it need a str_replace to get into that kind of code? (While viewing source), so I want to say Thank you pikachu for telling me about viewing source, I know I should have, and I will continue that in my future of coding, if I am stuck. I learned a big lesson here and I am thankful for you guys helping me.  Wow, ManiacDan, so sorry for giving you a hard time, I bet you were like "WTF"

 

Thanks again all,

I am going to mark this as Resolved.

 

I am extremely Happy.