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$before="[[Lorem ipsum]] dolor sit amet, [[consectetur¦adipiscing elit]]. Aliquam mattis [[vestibulum nil]]es, at tincidunt [[eros¦commodo eu]].";
I'm trying to use pre_replace to change this into this:
$after="<a href="/Lorem_ipsum">Lorem ipsum</a> dolor sit amet, <a href="/Consectetur">adipiscing elit</a>. Aliquam mattis <a href="/Vestibulum_nil">vestibulum niles</a>, at tincidunt <a href="/Eros">commodo eu</a>.";
I'm using preg_replace to make everything between double square brackets into links, but I'm having a hard time trying to get the spaces in the URL to become underscores (without all the spaces in the string becoming underline).
$after=preg_replace("/\[\[(.*)\]\]/iU","<a href=\"/$1\">$1</a>",$before);
I imagine once I figure out how to make changes to the isolated part of the string (the matched part), I could use something like ucfirst(str_replace(" ","_",$1));
Beyond that, I don't have a clue how to match when the link text and url are different ([[consectetur¦adipiscing elit]]) or when the link text falls outside of the double square bracket but before a space ([[vestibulum nil]]es), worse still, when it's a combination of both.
Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks.
or like this
"[[Lorem ipsum]] dolor sit amet, [[consectetur¦adipiscing elit]]. Aliquam mattis [[vestibulum nil]]es, at tincidunt [[eros¦commodo eu]]. Aliquam mattis [[vestibulum nil]]es, at tincidunt [[eros¦commodo eu]].Aliquam mattis [[vestibulum nil]]es, at tincidunt [[eros¦commodo eu]]."
It would probably help if you didn't use lorem impsum and actully put a longer list of actual data you will be dealing with.
