[stormshadow]

Ive been looking for it and cannot find on how to add the highlight_string function to a preg_replce(); function.

my replace string is...
'<strong>PHP Code:</strong><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:5px;background-color:#F7F7F7;border:1px dotted #CCCCCC;width:80%;"><em>'. highlight_string('\1') .'</em></div>'

but it outputs 1 in the <div> tag :-/

any other ideas?

[Nico]

You need either two slashes infront of the one (\\1), or use $1.

EDIT:
I don't think this wil work this way though.

EDIT 2:
You need to set the second argument in highlight_string() to true in order to get the code as string.

And this might help.
http://www.programmingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=32549

[stormshadow]

thank you very much! but it does the same thing

[PHP]$patterns = array( '`\[b\](.+?)\[/b\]`is',
'`\[i\](.+?)\[/i\]`is',
'`\[u\](.+?)\[/u\]`is',
'`\[strike\](.+?)\[/strike\]`is',
'`\[color=#([0-9]{6})\](.+?)\[/color\]`is',
'`\[color=(.+?)\](.+?)\[/color\]`is',
'`\[email\](.+?)\[/email\]`is',
'`\[img\](.+?)\[/img\]`is',
'`\[url=([a-z0-9]+://)([\w\-]+\.([\w\-]+\.)*[\w]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[^ \"\n\r\t<]*?)?)\](.*?)\[/url\]`si',
'`\[url\]([a-z0-9]+?://){1}([\w\-]+\.([\w\-]+\.)*[\w]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)?)\[/url\]`si',
'`\[url\]((www|ftp)\.([\w\-]+\.)*[\w]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[^ \"\n\r\t<]*?)?)\[/url\]`si',
'`\[quote\](.+?)\[/quote\]`is',
'`\[indent](.+?)\[/indent\]`is',
'`\[size=([1-6]+)\](.+?)\[/size\]`is',
'`\[code](.+?)\[/code\]`is',
'`\

PHP Code:

(.+?)\[/php\]`is'

                        );

    

    $replaces =  array(

                        '<strong>\\1</strong>',

                        '<em>\\1</em>',

                        '<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted">\\1</span>',

                        '<strike>\\1</strike>',

                        '<span style="color:#\1;">\2</span>',

                        '<font color=\1>\2</font>',

                        '<a href="mailto:\1">\1</a>',

                        '<img src="\1" alt="" style="border:0px;" />',

                        '<a href="\1\2">\6</a>',

                        '<a href="\1\2">\1\2</a>',

                        '<a href="http://\1">\1</a>',

                        '<strong>Quote:</strong><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:5px;background-color:#F7F7F7;border:1px dotted #CCCCCC;width:80%;"><em>\1</em></div>',

                        '<pre>\\1</pre>',

                        '<h\1>\2</h\1>',

                        '<strong>Code:</strong><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:5px;background-color:#F7F7F7;border:1px dotted #CCCCCC;width:80%;"><em>\1</em></div>',

                        '<strong>PHP Code:</strong><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:5px;background-color:#F7F7F7;border:1px dotted #CCCCCC;width:80%;"><em>'. highlight_string("$1") .'</em></div>'

                        ); 

[stormshadow]

:-/ any other ideas?

[stormshadow]

i got a code from php.net... thanks ^_^