Mark Hensler — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:06:08 +0000

The forum software (for some unknown reason) has been forwarding me a lot of undeliverable mails as of late. So, I know quite a few subscription emails aren't getting sent. I intend to upgrade to vB3 once it goes stable, so we'll finally be rid of all these vB2 bugs.

Speaking of vB2 bugs... my code was fine (check the phps file linked above), but vB2 has a problem with escaped characters in code or php tags. For some reason, it doesn't escape the escape characters. Yet another quirk I've hated about vB2.

Glad you've got it working!

section31 — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:57:17 +0000

@ Mark Hensler

Thank you so much, that worked just fine. Except you had a typo
Changes made in RED
$bodytext = preg_replace('#\[url=("|\ ')?(<a href="http://" class="bb-url">http://</a>|<a href="ftp://" class="bb-url">ftp://</a>|mailto:)?(.*?)(?(1)\1)\](.*?)\[/url\]#ie','

the reason for the late reply is b/c I didn't receive an email notification...i dont' know why.

m3rajk — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:29:23 +0000

php.net. you can search functions

Mark Hensler — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:23:27 +0000

try this:

$bodytext = preg_replace('#\[url\](http://|ftp://|mailto:)?(.*?)\[/url\]#ie',
		"'<a href=\"'.('\\1'==''?'http://':'\\1').'\\2\" target=\"_blank\">'.('\\1'==''?'http://':'\\1').'\\2</a>'",
		$bodytext);
$bodytext = preg_replace('#\[url=("|\')?(http://|ftp://|mailto:)?(.*?)(?(1)\1)\](.*?)\[/url\]#ie',
		"'<a href=\"'.('\\2'==''?'http://':'\\2').'\\3\" target=\"_blank\">\\4</a>'",
		$bodytext);

'
test: http://host.maxalbert.com/testing_center/regex_exercise7.php
code: http://host.maxalbert.com/testing_center/phps_files/regex_exercise7.phps

section31 — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:20:45 +0000

WTF, the code above didn't come out the way i wanted...hehehe I can even edit my posts on these boards ahhhhh...rofl, how do I post the url tag w/o it actually using it. I'm going to use a star for the mean time...lol

OK the code below acts like bbcode and does this [*url]link[*/url]

Could someone rewrite this where it would accept both the above and something like this --->> [*url=myurl]nameoflink[*/url]

<?php
$bodytext = preg_replace(\"`\[url\](?:=http://)?(.*?)\[/url\]`\", '<a href=\"http://\1\">[url]http://\1[/url]</a>', $bodytext);
?>