Tag: regex

formatting local phone numbers into international (knowing countries)

internationalization phone-number php regex

I use an SMS API to send confirmation code to phone. Its parameters requires me to set the visitors phone number format into international, for example +9912345678 instead of 012 345 678. Is there a php class (without Composer) that would do it for me (could not find anything so far on GG), considering I know…

wp_nav_menu filter, removing a specific link

php preg-replace regex wordpress

I’m trying to remove a specific link from my wordpress menu: <li class="ubermenu-item ubermenu-item-type-post_type ubermenu-item-object-page ubermenu-item-1 ubermenu-item-level-0 ubermenu-column …

preg_replace get each two characters from a word

php preg-replace regex

Actually I’m trying to come up with a way of getting a string like “GEWO” out of the “Get Word” by using preg_replace function. The thing is there also can be a strings like “Get”, or “Get Word And another Word” so I have to get the proper string respectiv…

How can I filter by “ends with” using PHPUnit’s –filter option?

php phpunit regex

I’m trying to filter a PHPUnit test suite. When I try to filter by test name using –filter, the tests that exactly match the specified string are executed, but so are any tests that begin with the string. eg. If I have two tests, testExample and testExampleTwo, the following runs both tests: How c…

preg_match accented characters

encoding php regex

I have an issue using preg_match with php. I want my users to fill the Name field with only valid characters. Ex: no numbers or special chars. My site will eventually be bilingual but most of my visitors are french Canadians I prefer utf-8 for my encoding. So at the top of my document i have this tag : I

Correct way to add comments to a Regular Expression in PHP

php regex

I’m trying to add comments to make a regexp clearer But i get the warning Warning: preg_replace(): Unknown modifier ‘/’ in on line 280 How should i comment it? Answer This may not be the cleanest approach, but you could enclose each section in quotes and concatenate them. Something like this…

Insert spaces into a string at each change of character

php preg-replace recursion regex split

I’m trying to create a string with a blank space between all “different characters, for example: I tried the following recursive function, not knowing if this is the best way because I couldn’t find any build-in function in PHP for this. For some reason, this function seems to iterate infini…

PHP – Why am I being warned that my regular expression is too large?

php regex

I would like to use a regular expression to validate user input. I want to allow any combination of letters, numbers, spaces, commas, apostrophes, periods, exclamation marks, and question marks, but I also want to limit the input to 4000 characters. I have come up with the following regular expression to achi…

Preg_match string inside curly braces tags

php preg-match regex

I’d like to grab a string between tags. My tags will be with curly braces. So far I have found #<s*?$tagnameb[^>]*>(.*?)</$tagnameb[^>]*>#s This one matches tags with angle brackets <>. I couldn’t figure out how to make it look for curly braces. Eventually I would like to p…

How to replace custom html tag with html code in php

html php regex

This is my scenario: In a custom CMS developed in PHP, I need to parse HTML string searching some custom tags to replace them with some HTML code. Here is an example for clarifying: I need to find the custom tags and replace them with the template of the item, as a result: This would be very helpful, but I