Question

preg_match("/[\]/",'',$body);

I use preg_match but I have this error here

Compilation failed: missing terminating ] for character class at offset 3

What’s wrong here I can’t find it

$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

                    function clean_string($string) {
                        $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
                        return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
                    }

                    $email_message .= "Full Name: ".clean_string($_POST['full_name'])."\n";
                    $email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($_POST['email'])."\n";
                    $email_message .= "Telephone number: ".clean_string($_POST['telephone'])."\n";
                    $email_message .= "Message: ".clean_string($_POST['comments'])."\n";


                    $mail             = new PHPMailer();
                    $body             = $email_message;
                    $body             = str_replace('\\', '', $body);

                    $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
                    $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                       // enable SMTP authentication
                    $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                      // sets the prefix to the servier
                    $mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";           // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
                    $mail->Port       = 465;                        // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
                    $mail->Username   = "[e-mail]";      // GMAIL username
                    $mail->Password   = "hinadk";       // GMAIL password

                    $mail->SetFrom('[e-mail]', 'First Last');

                    $mail->Subject    = "Imperia";

                    $mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatidble email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

                    $mail->MsgHTML($body);

                    $address = "[e-mail]";
                    $mail->AddAddress($address, "To Name");

                    if(!$mail->Send()) {

                        echo "<font color='red'> Message error </font>". $mail->ErrorInfo;
                    } else {
                        echo "<font color='red'> Message sent </font>";
                    } 

there was eregi_replace(“[]”,”,$body);

but I had a another error for that reason i change it to preg_match

Answer 1

You’re escaping the last bracket but not the first. To match backslash, you can do:

preg_match('/\\\\/', '', $body);

From your edit, it appears you’re trying to remove backslashes from $body. In this case, you would need to use preg_replace. However, since your doing a simple search and replace, you’d be better off just using str_replace:

str_replace('\\', '', $body);