Question

I have an application that is now running on PHP 5.3 that was originally developed in a previous version. I receive an eror stating:

Function ereg_replace() is deprecated

referring to the following snippet:

<?php $summary = ereg_replace("<[^>]*>","", $item['item_description'])?>

What changes to the above snippet are required to use preg_replace()?

Answer 1

All you need to do is use the function preg_replace() and put delimiters around the expression:

$summary = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/","", $item['item_description']);