RE: [PHP] preg_replace
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:34:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] preg_replace | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> This should work (as far as I can tell) But yields the following
error.
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CHARACTER, expecting T_STRING
or
> T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> function HTMLfromNickName ( $player ) {
> //example input "^2pla^3yer"
> $color=array(
> "1"=>"#FF0000",
> "2"=>"#00FF00",
> "3"=>"#F0FF0F",
> "4"=>"#0000FF",
> "5"=>"#00FFFF",
> "6"=>"#FF00FF",
> "7"=>"#FFFFFF",
> "8"=>"ltbrown",
> "9"=>"#0F00F0",
> "0"=>"#E7E7E7"
> );
> $pattern = "/\^(\d)/";
> $replacement = "$color[$1]";
> $player = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $player);
> return $player;
> }
You have a $1, which is not valid unless it's inside a "replacement"
string. It's not where you have it.
Anyway, you need an 'e' modifier to make this work. Use these two lines:
$pattern = "/\^(\d)/e";
$replacement = '$color[$1]';
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