preg_replace() issues

[davidw]

I'm having an issue with a thread
for example, if someone puts a < (less than symbol) in a thread, it turns a result into a link.

Right now I'm using
$news['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/^,/', '', $news['pagetext']);
$news['pagetext'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(strip_bbcode(fetch_censored_t ext(substr($news['preview'], 0, $charlimit)))); but the preg_replace doesn't work.
I've tried using $news['pagetext'] = preg_replace('/</', '', $news['pagetext']); also.

I've not had to deal with preg_replace before, but I've also never seen preview issues where it turns the text into a link because of the < symbol either.

Any help is appreciated.

[Code Monkey]

Interesting. Do you have a link to an example?

Do you have any vbcode hacks installed or any custom vbcode in use?

[davidw]

I can't recreate the issue on my website (its something that someone is testing for me and I can see it there), so I don't know if its the code or if its me, but I did find a work around using &lt; instead. I don't know why it didn't occur to me that the when using dreamweaver and using split mode the result of using < is &lt; AND thinking back to URLs in templates changing & symbols to &amp; the &lt; fixed that problem. So now I have that problem fixed.

What do you mean by vbcode hacks installed or any custom vbcode in use? It's installed on my live website. I've got probably 15-20 hacks installed on the website, but nothing should conflict as I took out the plugin (it had an issue when I did use a plugin). Of course, the project I'm working on is custom code as no one has done it before. Is that what you mean? I also noticed I had to add the preg_replace to the $news['title'] to fix other issues.

I can give you a link to where it is working good, but that won't do any good. I don't have the link offhand of where its corrupt. I wish I could recreate the problem that way I could show you what it does.

[Code Monkey]

It's probably something on that persons site. If you can't recreate it anywhere else then that is the only conclusion you can come to without further evidence to the contrary.

[davidw]

It was. Problem resolved :)