HELP PLEASE!! Help with preg_replace

[Michael Morris]

Hello all. I'm working on the following replacement routine in my PHP Include end (no, I'm not allowed to hack the bbcodeparser)

I'm getting this error

Parse error: parse error, expecting `'('' in /web/boards/includes/functions.php(1932) : eval()'d code(36) : regexp code on line 1

Fatal error: Failed evaluating code: str_ireplace(Array, Array, 'WBURG'); in /web/boards/includes/functions.php(1932) : eval()'d code on line 36

here's the code

PHP Code:

//################ Do Mana Cost tag ######################

// Valid Characters to search for
$mana_find = array( 'w','u','b','r','g','t','x','y','z','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0');

// Replacement Strings to insert
$mana_replace = array( 
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_W_mana.gif" border="0" alt="W" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_U_mana.gif" border="0" alt="U" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_B_mana.gif" border="0" alt="B" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_R_mana.gif" border="0" alt="R" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_G_mana.gif" border="0" alt="G" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_T_mana.gif" border="0" alt="T" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_X_mana.gif" border="0" alt="X" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_Y_mana.gif" border="0" alt="Y" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_Z_mana.gif" border="0" alt="Z" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_1_mana.gif" border="0" alt="1" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_2_mana.gif" border="0" alt="2" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_3_mana.gif" border="0" alt="3" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_4_mana.gif" border="0" alt="4" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_5_mana.gif" border="0" alt="5" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_6_mana.gif" border="0" alt="6" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_7_mana.gif" border="0" alt="7" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_8_mana.gif" border="0" alt="8" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_9_mana.gif" border="0" alt="9" />',
    '<img src="http://www.wizards.com/images/symbols/Symbol_0_mana.gif" border="0" alt="0" />'
    );
    
// Now for the fun part - first we define our tag.
$manastring_find = '#\[mctwo\](.*)\[/mctwo\](<br />|<br>)??#esiU';

// Now we define our replacement
$manastring_replace = "str_ireplace($mana_find, $mana_replace, '\\1');";

// Cross our fingers. 
$output = preg_replace($manastring_find, $manastring_replace, $output);