[thelist] Please help.. PHP guru's

[John williams]

I think you could use str_replace (which isn't regular expressions):
str_replace(searchstr,replacestr,subjectstr) (returns modified string)

$subject_string = str_replace('<?','&lt;?',$subject_string);
$subject_string = str_replace('?>','?&gt;',$subject_string);

If you go with reg_ex, besides taking a little longer you're going to
have to quote out questionmarks, etc.

You can also pass str_replace arrays for parameters 1 and 2.

$replace_me = array('<?','?>');
$with_me = array('&lt;?','?&gt;');

$subject_string = str_replace($replace_me,$with_me,$subject_string);

More info (and maybe better examples) at http://us4.php.net/str_replace 


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:27:08 +1030, Tim Burgan <email at timburgan.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a string:
> $str = '&lt;p&gt;This is a paragraph&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php echo \'hello\';
> ?&gt;';
> 
> Which I convert using:
> html_entity_decode(stripslashes($str));
> 
> Which result in:
> <p>This is a paragraph</p><?php echo 'hello'; ?>
> 
> But.. I need to manipulate the string in such a way that the PHP tags to
> STAY ENCODED like:
> <p>This is a paragraph</p>&lt;?php echo 'hello'; ?&gt;
> 
> How do I do this..? Would I use regular expressions, but how?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
> 
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