Interpreting text in PHP

[srg_13]

Hi,

How can I write a php script, so if in a varable there is the text "[link=http://www.foo.com]Stuff[/link]" (without quotes), it just displays "[link]"??

These tags would be inside lots of other plain text.

Thanks in advance,

-Stephen

[AGI1122]

You can do this with preg_replace.

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$text = '[link=http://www.foo.com]Stuff[/link]';
$text = preg_replace('/\[link=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/link\]/is','<a href="\\1">\\2</a>',$text);

As you can see it will replace it with an actual link. You can adjust it to do exactly what you want.

[Warrior]

Adittionally you might want to use an array to match each replacement to what they are replaced with and use array_keys() and array_values().

This is of course if you plan to have a lot of BBCode and dont want to have a replacement for everyone.