Question

How would i add both of these preg_replace together? I am lost on how to do it.

<?= preg_replace('/@(\w+)/', '<a href="https://www.twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>', stripslashes($row['tweet_text']))?>
<?= preg_replace('/#(\w+)/', '<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/$#$1">#$1</a>', stripslashes($row['tweet_text']))?>

and it would do both these things for

stripslashes($row['tweet_text']

Answer 1

You can do this:

$regex = array('/@(\w+)/','/#(\w+)/');
$replace = array(
  '<a href="https://www.twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>',
  '<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/$#$1">#$1</a>'
);
preg_replace($regex,$replace,stripslashes($row['tweet_text']));

Check the docs: http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

Also, here’s a sweet example.