Topic awaiting preservation: Strange Regular Expression Error

Okay, I'm writing a news system that can dynamically load up and insert emoticons. I keep getting this error:

Warning: REG_EPAREN in /home/simonwaltho/www/crystalsanctuary/admin/editnews2.php on line 119

I have no idea what's wrong. Here's the code that's causing this error:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM cs_smiles";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $dbp);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$story = eregi_replace($row[textsymbol],"<img src=\"$row[url]\" alt=\"$row[bigname]\" />",$story);
}

"No one's going to give you a map; you've got to walk your own path." - Hot Ice Hilda, Outlaw Star.

I guess that string contained in $row[textsymbol] variable isn't a valid regular expression. You probably stored just text (i.e. ":&#101;ek:") that has to be replaced with appropriate <IMG> tag, in which case you should use str_replace() function instead...

That worked perfectly! Thanks.

"No one's going to give you a map; you've got to walk your own path." - Hot Ice Hilda, Outlaw Star.

Now I can't make it go the other way! The text is a 100% match, but both ereg_replace and str_replace refuse to perform the replacement!

"No one's going to give you a map; you've got to walk your own path." - Hot Ice Hilda, Outlaw Star.

Maybe try $row['textsymbol']

The single quotes could make the difference you are looking for. Or it could be meaningless.

Dark Phoenix, can you show me the code that doesn't work? Also, show the contents of $row[] variables and example text...

Okay, the code that doesn't work looks like this:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM cs_smiles";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $dbp);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$replace = "<img src=\"" . $row[url] . "\" alt=\"" . $row[bigname] . "\" />";
$story = str_replace($replace, $row[textsymbol], $story);
}

$row[url] is the url to the smile image, $row[bigname] is the name of the smile with all words capitalized, $row[textsymbol] is the symbol that represents the smile ( for smile, etc) and $story is the news story.

"No one's going to give you a map; you've got to walk your own path." - Hot Ice Hilda, Outlaw Star.

On the first look, the source code looks fine to me. So, if it doesn't replace <IMG> tags back to text, it means that text isn't really the same. I suggest you to print all those variables on screen (all $row[] variables and $story variable) and compare them manually to see where's the difference...

I did. There's no difference. None whatsoever.

"No one's going to give you a map; you've got to walk your own path." - Hot Ice Hilda, Outlaw Star.