note 72843 deleted from function.preg-replace by colder

Note Submitter: Marc ---- I have a free text field, and I wanted users to be able to style it up a bit with color using <color>some text</color> for a couple common colors. When the field is displayed as readonly, I wanted to replace these tags, which can be nested, with the appropriate html markup. Here we go: <?php $value = "Some <red>value with <green>nested</green> colors <black>!!!!!</black></red>"; //Add more html compliant colors as required :-) $colors = "blue|black|brown|cyan|gray|green|orange|pink|purple|red|yellow"; do{ $value = preg_replace("/<($colors)>(.*)</\\1>/i", "<font style='color: $1;'>$2</font>", $value, -1, $count); }while($count); ?>