Preg_replace

a guide

[WhosAWhata]

i'm working on a site that will allow message posting (by administrators only) and wish to have something similar to the Style Codes tool to the left. I realize that the best way to accomplish this is by using preg_replace to turn things like into <img src="pics/this.jpg">

i was hoping someone would post a link to a tutorial on the structure of the preg_replace search functions all of the /,\,{,},[,] etc... i didn't find the php.net to be as helpful as one would hope

thanks

[Timotheos]

I understand you might want to do it on your own but there is the PEAR HTML to BBCode parser class [pear.php.net] that does it.

[WhosAWhata]

thats great thanks!
i am still interested though in learning for future experience...