I'm working on adding values into a template and have a problem.
Here is my template
TIME : |time,hour|:|time,min|:|time,sec| <br />
ADDING BLOCK 'TIME' ...<br />
<i>|template,tibcoreapps,main|</i><br />
The characters | is used for seperating blocks of data. When I tried to get block |template,tibcoreapps,main| using preg_match , it didn't work with my code :
preg_match("/(.*)|template,tibcoreapps,(.*)|(.*)/",$templateContent,$result);
var_dump($result);
And result is
array (size=2)
0 => string 'TIME : |time,hour|:|time,min|:|time,sec| <br /> (length=48)
1 => string 'TIME : |time,hour|:|time,min|:|time,sec| <br /> (length=48)
I tried searching around the internet but can't get exactly how preg_match works. I used to think it gets all matched strings if I assign $result ( the third parameter ) . But even when I try to get a block which starting with template,tibcoreapps,, it returns other blocks or the first blocks it gets. Please explain me the way preg_match works.
Thank you for any helps.
Since | has special meaning in regular expressions, you need to escape it.
preg_match("/(.*)\|template,tibcoreapps,(.*)\|(.*)/",$templateContent,$result);
If you're not familiar with regular expressions, you should read the tutorial at regular-expressions.info.