Need some help with code

[Parker Clack]

Paul:

If somewhere to put in http://www.yourplace.com Go to my place.

I want it to have only "Go to my place" (without the quotes) striping out the url.
Or if they try to use
< img src="http://......." > it would strip out the everything from < to >.
Also, I would like to strip out any { } or [ ].

Thanks,
Parker

[Paul M]

I don't think there is a single vb function to do all of that - the best way would probably be to use preg_replace() with some custom regex.

[Parker Clack]

Paul:

Thanks. I am very much a newbee when it comes to code. Could you write up something that I could see what you are recommending done that I could expand on?

Parker

[Paul M]

You need someone who knows regex quite well to use my suggestion, sadly that's not me, it just gives me a bad headache.

[Parker Clack]

Would something like this work?

if ($userinfo['field15'])
{
$userinfo['field15'] = preg_replace('#(?<!<http>|<img>|<www>)#', ' ', $userinfo['field15']);
}

[Dismounted]

PHP Code:

if ($userinfo['field5'])
{
    $patterns = array(
        '/<(.*?)>/i',
        '/{(.*?)}/i',
        '/[(.*?)]/i'
    );
    $userinfo['field5'] = preg_replace($patterns, '', $userinfo['field5']);
} 


@Paul, regex used to confuse me (and still does) but I get the hang of it .

[Parker Clack]

Dismounted:

Still no go. If I put in http://www that is what shows up in the field. If I put in <http that is what shows up.

Thanks,
Parker