Does anyone have an example of the kind of thing that vb code does in forums like this. ie. Changes all instances of [ url=http://mypage.com] into < a href="http://mypage.com" >
I know it uses regular expressions and have done it in ASP using StrReplace but don't want to code it all in php if someone already has it. Thanks,
-dk

hmm that would be great to know, anyone knows how?

Hmm.... probably not how its done by VB but you could do something like this with str_replace.

For example, on my CMS I enclose titles in [title][/title]. Then have code to change it to HTML, for example:

PHP Code:

$content=str_replace('[title]','<font face="Arial" color="#000099"><big><b>',$content); 


So to do something like the VB code, you could have:

PHP Code:

$stringname=str_replace('[ url=','<a href="',$stringname);
$stringname=str_replace(']','">',$stringname); 


There's probably a better way, though

I suggest you look up and learn how to do 'regex' [regular expressions]

Alright thanks everyone. I know it has to be done with regex. Just figured I'd look and see if someone already had some code for it. Thanks anyways.
-dk