Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP] preg_replace_callback From: Derick Rethans (derick <email protected>)
Date: 11/18/02

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bikeman wrote:

> Me again.
>
> I think this really badly documented in the documentation. I hope this is
> solved soon. To be more detailed: The preg_replace_callback()-function
> documentation says it is the same as the preg_replacec()-function, except
> for the second argument. Apparently, it is not, since it doesn't support
> multiple patterns to be recognized and replaced. I think this should be
> made clear. I suppose I'll be using the preg_replace(), then. Maybe I'll
> try to find the way-in-between, with the /e-modifier ... I thought the
> callback-variant was more elegant, but I have to get it to work, so ...

Please file a bugreport in the "Documentation problem" so that we won't
forget this.

Derick

> "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000 <email protected>> wrote in message
> news:006101c28e91$4609e190$7c02a8c0 <email protected>
> > "callback" should be the name of a function that determines what the
> > matched pattern will be replaced with.
> >
> > Maybe you just need the regular preg_replace(), instead of the one with
> > callback?
> >
> > ---John Holmes...
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bikeman [mailto:bikeman82 <email protected>]
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:23 PM
> > > To: phpdoc <email protected>; php-general <email protected>; php-
> > > lang <email protected>
> > > Subject: [PHP] preg_replace_callback
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I have totally no clue at all wether I am posting in the right
> > newsgroup
> > > here, and I was not planning on caching all messages in my (first time
> > > used,
> > > I prefer Outlook) Outlook Express before searching. So if I am
> > disobeying
> > > all rules here ... I'm sorry ... I just am not an experienced news-
> > > service
> > > user ...
> > >
> > > Now, my question/remark/bug report. It concerns, ad you could guess,
> > the
> > > preg_replace_callback function. The manual is very short on this
> > > function,
> > > and the comments posted on the online-version of the manual, are not
> > > helping
> > > me, either ... I am trying to use this function as the regular
> > > preg_replace
> > > can be used, namely woth a patterns-array, a replacement-array (which
> > gets
> > > the callback-array) and a subject. This doesn't work, though ... It
> > > appears as if the callback-variant of the preg_replace version isn't
> > > capable
> > > of handling multiple patterns at a time. This is the error-message I
> > get:
> > > "Warning: preg_replace_callback() requires argument 2, 'Array', to be
> > a
> > > valid callback in ...". I pass it, as a second argument, an Array
> > that
> > > consists of strings containing the names of functions I defined later
> > in
> > > my
> > > php-file. (Hmmm ... Could that be the problem? Tha fact that I
> > define
> > > the
> > > functions AFTER I give the Array tot the functions? Don't think so,
> > > though
> > > ...)
> > >
> > > Did anybody have the same experience, or am I really doing something
> > > wrong?
> > >
> > > Tnx in advance for any reply!!
> > >
> > > Bikeman
> > >
> > >
> > >
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