php upgraded to 5.4.25

[midwestdesignfirm]

Our sys admin upgraded to the most recent version of php and it broke many of our websites that we host. 

 

From the research that I have done, Function ereg_replace() is depreciated and no longer works in this version of PHP. 

 

originally the line of code was:

 

$bio = ereg_replace("\n", "</p><p>", $row["bio"]);

 

 

When i change it to:

 

$bio = preg_replace("\n", "</p><p>", $row["bio"]);

 

I get a new error:

 

Warning: preg_replace(): Empty regular expression in/home/....../public_html/filename.php on line 70

 

what am i missing? Thank you in advance for any assistance.

 

[Ch0cu3r]

yes with PHP5.4 ereg is deprecated. Instead you need to use preg_replace. When changing ereg_replace to preg_replace you need to add delimiters to your regex patterns.

 

However with the code snippet you posted, it is replacing newlines with paragraph tags you could use str_replace instead

$bio = str_replace("\n", "</p><p>", $row["bio"]);

Edited February 17, 2014 by Ch0cu3r

[midwestdesignfirm]

Perfect. Thank you for your assistance.