need help with removing [Rs]

[bumilad20]

jus A quick question .. does any1 know a way how .. that u can check on the topic title name for like

[Rs] , [[hf] etc and to get rid of it ?

bumilad20 Reviewed by bumilad20 on 12th Aug 2010. need help with removing [Rs] jus A quick question .. does any1 know a way how .. that u can check on the topic title name for like , etc and to get rid of it ? Rating: 5

[Mr.WT]

which forum script u use in ur forum like Vbulletin, IPB, Phpbb ???

[ayyan]

unmmm u want to skip prefix ?

[bumilad20]

ooh my bad ,, phpbb dude 3.0.7

[shadow.prx]

Do you mean for new topics posted or go through and delete them out of topic names that have already been posted ?

[RT]

I think he just wants to remove the [RS]/[HF] tags from the title.

[Mr Happy]

Someplace in the posting.php or newthread.php whatever the file is called you'll have to add a line of code like

$title = preg_replace('[RS]', '', $title); 

You can run it through a loop if you've loads.

// This removes [RS] [HF] [HF RS] [FS] [MU] RS HF FS from titles
$removes = array('[RS]', '[HF]', '[HF RS]', '[FS]', '[MU]', 'RS', 'HF', 'FS');
while ($removes as $revove)
{
$title = preg_replace($remove, '', $title);
} 

I have something like this built into LinkzBot for vB and IPB but I just haven't got round to learning PHPBB's framework to release it for PHPBB yet.

Sorry I can't be of any more help

[litewarez]

MR Happy, you need to examine the speed of your code, your running preg repalce lots of times when you only need to run it once

preg_replace("/(\[[RS|HF|FS|MU]\])?/","",$string); //UNTESTED 

or you cauld possibly do something like

preg_replace("/^(\[A-Z{2}\])/","",$string); 

what this is doing is its only looking at the start of the line for the brace and if it finds an open brace it then looks for 2 letters that are upper-case, and that is followed by a closing brace. these are very strict characteristics of host prefixing rules.

if your worried about tags that have lower case then you could poss just add a i after the last slash in the compilation to make it case Insensitive.

[Mr Happy]

MR Happy, you need to examine the speed of your code, your running preg repalce lots of times when you only need to run it once

preg_replace("/\([[RS|HF|FS|MU]\])?/","",$string); //UNTESTED 

I have it so they can enter their own prefixes they want removed in linkzbot which is saved to the DB settings as an array. It would be near impossible to convert individual user preferences to a usable regex that's why I have it the way I have it but yes your is way faster.

EDIT: Actually you have an error

[litewarez]

not really do, you can implode the array and the preg_escape them like so

$tags = array('RS','MS','FS','RS MU','MU');

$preg_compat = implode("|",$tags);

preg_replace("/\([[" . $preg_compat . "]\])?/","",$string); //UNTESTED 

EDIT: Actually you have an error

what you want me to do, give you a cookie lol. i did say untested, example purposes and all that shizzle

yea i was escaping the capture brace, change that now :/