vbdate[] and [url] -> <a href>

[jmellicker]

Originally Posted by Jolten

PHP Code:

chdir('/home/dvcreato/public_html/forum/') 


doesn't work?

Unfortunately no. I get the error listed above with either (what I understand as) relative or absolute path...

chdir('/home/dvcreato/public_html/discuss/');
require_once('./global.php');
chdir('..');

or

chdir('./discuss/');
require_once('./global.php');
chdir('..');

produces:

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/dvcreato/public_html/news2.php on line 6

Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/dvcreato/public_html/news2.php on line 6

Maybe I'll try putting the script in the same directory as global.php again and experiment with that for a while...

I am working with PHP 4.3.9, I would like to think it's something wrong with our PHP compile, but vBulletin and everything else works perfectly so it is obviously my brain deficiency

http://www.dvcreators.net/phpinfo.php

[jmellicker]

I found the answer, it was ridiculously simple

instead of using includes, or vbdate(), all I had to do was say:

echo date ("d M Y h:i a" ,$row_news['dateline'])

to properly format the date. Doh!


Now all I need to do is figure out how to replace a string in PHP so that everywhere in the text of the post where there is a " [ u r l ] " or " [ / u r l ] " it will have the proper actual HTML "<a href> </a> etc." so the text is a clickable link.

I need to change strings like this:

Perfect for use with a 
BeachTek adapter  to add high quality XLR mics.

to this:

Perfect for use with a <a href="http://www.dvcreators.net/products/beachtek.html" target="_blank">BeachTek adapter<a>
to add high quality XLR mics.

Here is what I tried:

$newbody = str_replace(array("", ""), array("<a href=\"", "\"target=\"_blank\">", "<a>"),$row_news['pagetext']);


   echo $newbody

and here is the result:

http://dvcreators.net/news2.php

I am getting close!!! Anyone want to help revise my replace script?

And why is this board parsing my CODE snippets??!?