Question

I have done my google research. I’ve tried preg_match, strsub_replace, almost everything.

I honestly can’t seem to figure out how to grab a word that is connected to a character.

I have a statuses system on my website. I am trying to figure out how replace a word with something else if it has the character ‘@’ in it.. like on twitter, when you say ‘@person’.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Answer 1

to just print matches:

preg_match_all("/@([0-9a-z]+)/i",$input,$matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

to replace them:

$input = preg_replace('/@([0-9a-z]+)/i','-->\1<--',$input);

will replace @text with -->text<--, as an example.