little PHP / regex help

[dmmh]

lo folks

I kinda suck with regular expressions and am seeking help fixing forum posts with multiple quoted content :S

how it looks now:



my code:

$patterns[29]="#\[quote\](.*?)\[/quote\]#si";
$replacements[29]= "<span class=\"quote\">\\1</span>";

[dmmh]

any takers?

[^misantropia^]

From the torrentbits.org source (which does roughly what you want):

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function format_quotes($s)
{
  while ($old_s != $s)
  {
  	$old_s = $s;

	  //find first occurrence of [/quote]
	  $close = strpos($s, "[/quote]");
	  if ($close === false)
	  	return $s;

	  //find last [quote] before first [/quote]
	  //note that there is no check for correct syntax
	  $open = _strlastpos(substr($s,0,$close), "[quote");
	  if ($open === false)
	    return $s;

	  $quote = substr($s,$open,$close - $open + 8);

	  //[quote]Text[/quote]
	  $quote = preg_replace(
	    "/\[quote\]\s*((\s|.)+?)\s*\[\/quote\]\s*/i",
	    "<p class=sub><b>Quote:</b></p><table class=main border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10><tr><td style='border: 1px black dotted'>\\1</td></tr></table><br>", $quote);

	  //[quote=Author]Text[/quote]
	  $quote = preg_replace(
	    "/\[quote=(.+?)\]\s*((\s|.)+?)\s*\[\/quote\]\s*/i",
	    "<p class=sub><b>\\1 wrote:</b></p><table class=main border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=10><tr><td style='border: 1px black dotted'>\\2</td></tr></table><br>", $quote);
         

	  $s = substr($s,0,$open) . $quote . substr($s,$close + 8);
  }

	return $s;
}

[dmmh]

why thank you

[bitWISE]

I like the forum design man.

[dmmh]

thanks man
took me quite some time to tweak the CSS etc, so I am also quite fond of it, but glad to hear Im not the only one

[saturn]

do your homework

[dmmh]

why re-invent the wheel?

[inolen]

why re-invent the wheel?

Because that's a somewhat common regex problem you should learn how to get around :P

[bitWISE]

I have a really cool idea to help with moderation of a large forum. Message me sometime if you're interested.

[dmmh]

will do, thx

[dmmh]

why re-invent the wheel?

Because that's a somewhat common regex problem you should learn how to get around :P

i fuckin despise regex, the syntax is just so wickedly weird

[inolen]

why re-invent the wheel?

Because that's a somewhat common regex problem you should learn how to get around :P

i fuckin despise regex, the syntax is just so wickedly weird

Like?

[dmmh]

needs some tweaking and now my smilies are borked, but Ill find this shortly

thx

edit: had to write the _strlastpos() function myself though, since the source isnt free
but works (y)

[dmmh]

Because that's a somewhat common regex problem you should learn how to get around :P

i fuckin despise regex, the syntax is just so wickedly weird

Like?

dunno, it just doesnt make much sense to me