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jeteon · Smarty n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2015 Posts: 2

I'm posting this here because the issue tracker on Google code is no longer operational due to Google code being shut down.

I am using Smarty 3.1 with PHP 5.5.9 on an i386 machine running Ubuntu 14.04. When I used the smarty preg_replace() function, code that has the pattern:

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

It is not Smarty, it is YOU using it incorrectly.
Correct use would be
{$pattern|preg_replace:$replacement:$variable}

jeteon · Smarty n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2015 Posts: 2

You're right. I was looking up the syntax for regexp_replace in the docs and testing the regex using preg_replace on the command line. I guess at some point, I carried the function name over into my source.

AnrDaemon · Administrator Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1785

Generally speaking, it is not nice to make complex changes to the passed data in such a way inside the template.
This makes debugging more complicated for the designer.

U.Tews · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 3:25 am Post subject:

See the regex_replace modifier
http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.modifier.regex.replace.tpl