Need help with fancy type of bbcode, seriosuly no joke immeditaley

[cstegner]

I am working to make a script that will replace a bbcode type tag with the correct embed html for the media type.  Here it will make more sense if I just show you.

 

here is the sample string:

 

The idea of all of the possibilities that iValueRich.com will bring the community just blows my mind. I hope everyone is ready for it!  [quicktime "991cc705c6e8be7b074aeca3fe0f52e1.mov"]  [quicktime "991cc705c6e8be7b074aeca3fe0f52e1.mov"]

 

I was thinking that I could use preg_replace, however two problems I am having a tough time getting it to work at all in my object and even if I do I could use some help with the expression.

 

Here is what I was kind of thinking

 

// add media into blog post
public function add_media()
{
    $patterns[0] = 'expression for [quicktime "whatever"]';
    $patterns[1] = 'expression for [windows_video "whatever"]';
    $patterns[2] = 'expression for [flash "whatever"]';

    $replacements[0] = 'proper embed code';
    $replacements[1] = 'proper embed code';
    $replacements[2] = 'proper embed code';

    $this->blog = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $this->blog);
}

 

I have all of the embed code.  Another problem how would I pass the "whatever" to the embed code?  Please any help, or otherways to accomplish this, anything.

[cstegner]

Solved!

 

Once I woke up a little I realized that I was making things much too difficult.

 

I ended up going this route.

// add media into blog post
public function add_media()
{
	$blog_one = explode('[:', $this->blog);
	if(count($blog_one) > 1)
	{
		for($i=0; $i <= count($blog_one); $i++)
		{
			$blog_two = explode(':]', $blog_one[$i]);
			if(count($blog_two) > 1)
			{
				$blog_three = explode('|', $blog_two[0]);
				$media_type = str_replace(' ', '', $blog_three[0]);
				$media_url = str_replace(' ', '', $blog_three[1]);

				switch ($media_type) {

				case "quicktime":
					$blog_two[0] = '
						<object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="320" height="256" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
							<param name="src" value="/uploads/' . $media_url . '">
							<param name="qtsrc" value="/uploads/' . $media_url . '">
							<param name="autoplay" value="true">
							<param name="loop" value="false">
							<param name="controller" value="true">
							<embed src="/uploads/' . $media_url . '" qtsrc="/uploads/' . $media_url . '" width="320" height="256" autoplay="true" loop="false" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></embed>
						</object>';
					break;

				case "windows_video":
					$blog_two[0] = 'embed code';
					break;

				case "flash":
					$blog_two[0] = 'embed code';
					break;

				}

				$blog_one[$i] = join($blog_two);
			}
		}

		$this->blog = join($blog_one);
	}
}

 

this owrks perfect for [: quicktime | whatever.mov :] however many times its inserted between whatever text, etc.