Quake3World

http://bb.cinemasiafreaks.com/view/?tid=15#97

I have a part in the admin panel where I can set UBB tags if you will for smilies.
I simply comma seperate the different tags and put the smilie name and the tags as one long string into the DB, which takes one row as you might expect

in my forums etc the string needs to be exploded to determine the possible pseudonyms/ tags for a smilie in the DB (line 6+7)

for those images I have to create replacements to run through preg_replace(), which works fine (line 20)
however, the patterns also need to be dynamically generated, which is what kind of fails.
I need to escape certain characters in the pseudonyms, which I where I fail

basically it fails on smilies like: : ) and ; ) because of the ')', which needs to be escaped like '/:\)/'
this should happen on line 15
can someone tell me how I can insert a '\' before a ')' ????

should I just explode it, insert it and the put it back together?

The advice that I have for you is to just let it flow

give each smiley its own row in a table, or parse your smilies from a hard-coded array.

you mean:

$smilies = str_replace(")","\\)",$smilies); ??

4days wrote:give each smiley its own row in a table, or parse your smilies from a hard-coded array.

you didnt read properly

glossy wrote:you mean:

$smilies = str_replace(")","\\)",$smilies); ??

mmm, feared I had to resort to reg_exp, which is my worst nightmare

glossy? http://bb.cinemasiafreaks.com/view/?tid=15#93

Warning: preg_replace(): No ending delimiter '/' found in preg_replace_smilies.php on line 33

Warning: preg_replace(): Compilation failed: missing terminating ] for character class at offset 3 in preg_replace_smilies.php on line 33

$patterns[37] is '/:[/' but should be '/:\[/', so escape braces (they're used for character classing, e.g. [0-9a-fA-F] to match a hexadecimal character).

thx, now I still have one error:

Warning: preg_replace(): No ending delimiter '/' found in preg_replace_smilies.php on line 34

btw, it is stripping out slashes where it shouldnt

$this_pseudo = str_replace('[',"\\[",$this_pseudo);
$this_pseudo = str_replace(')',"\\)",$this_pseudo);
$this_pseudo = str_replace('\'',"\\'",$this_pseudo);
$this_pseudo = str_replace('/',"\\/",$this_pseudo);
$this_pseudo = str_replace('(',"\\(",$this_pseudo);

thats how it actually is listed :S

Shouldn't this do the trick? (Note the escaping of the backslash) BTW, the single quote doesn't need escaping since it is not used in regexes.

the string replacements are fine, but there is another error now it fails on