since PHP6 won't support ereg at all, i had a bit of free time to go through the code on all my websites to convert ereg to preg (which, for the most part, isn't especially difficult)...since i tend to reuse functions pretty regularly, it's not a big chore

i do, however, have this line in my email-checking function that is giving me trouble, but that's because i don't know my regex as well as i should:

ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$",$local_array[$i])

preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$/i",$local_array[$i])

11/6/2009 2:32:55 PM

i thought you could still use eregi?

this is currently working for me (file uploads):

if (eregi('(.jpg)|(.jpeg)^', $sFileName)) {
				$sMimeType = 'image/jpeg';

11/6/2009 3:26:42 PM

^ on PHP6?

11/6/2009 3:29:40 PM

oh sorry 4.3.10 >.<

11/6/2009 4:46:01 PM

sweet, i didn't know about the filter_var thing

preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$/i",$local_array[$i])

11/6/2009 7:16:17 PM

Quote :

"sweet, i didn't know about the filter_var thing "

inorite...it's pretty cool stuff

Quote :

"also, you need to escape the / before the = in your new statement"

ah, i think this will do it

Quote :

"you may have to escape the ^,$, and ? too"

i don't think so, based on the other bits i've converted, but i'll keep it in mind

thanks!

11/6/2009 7:30:34 PM