Re: RegExp for Forum-List-Code

At 17:19 09.11.2002, Jens Lehmann said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Hi out there, > >I encountered a lot of problems while trying to convert a list >in Forum-Code (like UBB-Code). > >[list] >[*] item 1 >[*] item 2 >[*] item 3 >[/list] > >should be converted to > ><ul> ><li>item 1</li> ><li>item 2</li> ><li>item 3</li> ></ul> --------------------[snip]-------------------- Maybe you could use this solution. It supports newlines and special characters in the item's data as well: <?php function ubb2ul($src) { // retrieve the items preg_match('/\[list\]\n?(.*?)\n?\[\/list\]/is', $src, $ar); // now split the results by (opt) newline, followed by '[*]', (opt) followed by whitespace $ar = preg_split('/\n*\s*\[\*\]\s*/s', $ar[1]); // $ar[0] is empty since the first element begins with a [*], chop it off array_shift($ar); // apply htmlentities for ($i = 0, $c = count($ar); $i < $c; ++$i) $ar[$i] = nl2br(htmlentities($ar[$i])); // finally construct the list $result = '<ul><li>' . join("\n\t<li>", $ar) . "\n</ul>\n"; return $result; } $ubb = '[list] [*] item 1 äöü line 1 item 1 line 2 [*] item 2 [*] item 3 [/list]'; echo ubb2ul($ubb); ?> -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/