note 35286 added to function.preg-replace-callback

I spent ages trying to work out how to send additional data in to a callback function without using a global (i don't like globals ;) and you can do it using serialize() and create_function() <? $outer_data = array('foo'=>'abc','bar'=>'123'); $callback = create_function('$matches', ' $inner_data = unserialize("'. addslashes(serialize($outer_data)) .'"); // do something here return $inner_data[$matches[1]]; ' ); $template_data = preg_replace_callback("/\{[$](.*?)\}/", $callback, $template_data); ?> so in the above example, if your regexp is like: s/(foo|bar)ing/ it will appear: for "fooing": abcing for "baring": 123ing ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace-callback.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+35286 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+35286&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+35286&report=yes