Question

For some reason i’m getting an unexpected “[” in the below line of code. I’m not an expert at php so it could be something simple and i’m not seeing it.

<span class=\"url\"> ". ereg_replace("[","",$ads]['ad_url'][$idx]) ."</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;".$ads['ad_desc'][$idx] ."</div> 

Thxs for the help in advance

I’m now getting the error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING after updating the a partial part of the code above to

preg_replace("/[/","",$ads['ad_url'][$idx])

Any ideas?

EDIT:
Here is the full updated code

 <span class=\"url\"> ".a ereg_replace("\[","",$ads['ad_url'][$idx]) ."</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;".$ads['ad_desc'][$idx] .</div>v>

Answer 1

Put a slash before [ in ereg param .. and replace ereg_replace with preg_replace (ereg is deprecated) then remove the ] after $ads like this:

ereg_replace("\[","",$ads['ad_url'][$idx]) 

better:
preg_replace(“/\[/”,””,$ads[‘ad_url’][$idx])