Never mind ... stupid me :-/ {was Re: [PHP] ereg-replace ... how to catch :'( [crying smiley] ???}

Never mind y'all ... me stupid ... obviously the ( has meaning, and needs to be escaped ... was starting to think it could only do 2 ereg's in 1 script *sigh* Sorry for wasting time and bandwidth ... the function now looks like this and works : function gfx_smiley($text) { $smiley_path = 'smiley'; $text = eregi_replace(':-?D','<img src="'.$smiley_path.'/biggrin.gif" alt=":D" width="15" height="15" align="absmiddle">',$text); $text = ereg_replace(':-?\?','<img src="'.$smiley_path.'/confused.gif" alt=":?" width="15" height="22" align="absmiddle">',$text); $text = ereg_replace(':&#039;-?\(','<img src="'.$smiley_path.'/crying.gif" alt=":&#039;(" width="25" height="15" align="absmiddle">',$text); $text = ereg_replace(':-?\(','<img src="'.$smiley_path.'/frown.gif" alt=":(" width="15" height="15" align="absmiddle">',$text); return $text; } At 15:43 14-04-2004, -{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote:

I'm trying to do graphical smileys for my guestbook, but I've run into a problem with the crying smilies: I need to replace :'( and :'-( ... or as they look in the post after being entered through htmlentities with ent_quotes on: :&#039;( :&#039;-( this causes the entire message to disappear: $text = ereg_replace(':&#039;-?(','<img src="'.$smiley_path.'/crying.gif" alt=":&#039;(" width="25" height="15" align="absmiddle">',$text); only the format of the search part differs from my other smiley replacements, so obviously that's where the problem is ... afaik, neither &, # or ; have any meaning in regex, so I don't get what causes it ... I've tried escaping all of those chars, and it still causes $text to come back empty... any ideas will be highly appreciated...

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