Small problem when writing PHP code for a page

[mmlr38]

I am trying to write a rather complicated page in PHP for websitebaker.  There are places in the code that I am writing that has regular expressions with numbers in brackets after them.  For example:

Code:

eregi("^[a-fA-F0-9]{32}$", $topicID)

Now, when I save the code in WB, for some reason, those numbers in the brackets and the brackets disappear.  Like this:

Code:

eregi("^[a-fA-F0-9]$", $topicID)

Does anyone have an idea why those are getting parsed out and how I can prevent it from happening?  I assume that it has something to do with special characters that WB wants to interpret.  I am hoping that there is a way to escape them so that they aren't pulled out.

Many thanks in advance.
Matt

[mmlr38]

Anyone know how to stop this from happening?

[thorn]

Hallo,

see http://projects.websitebaker.org/websitebaker2/ticket/553

thorn.

[mmlr38]

Thanks for pointing that out thorn, but that workaround doesn't work for regular expressions.  I get the following error:

Code:

Warning: eregi() [function.eregi]: REG_BADBR in /var/www/justin_paquette/modules/code/view.php(30) : eval()'d code on line 124

I don't think you are allowed to have spaces in the numbers of regular expressions.

[thorn]

Oh, i see -- too bad.

Have a look at http://projects.websitebaker.org/websitebaker2/changeset/569 to fix this problem.
Probably you can make these changes locally.

thorn.

BTW: if you use this code to check a $_GET or $_POST-variable (XSS-prevention), it's better to use the binary-safe preg_match().

[mmlr38]

thorn,

Yep, those changes fixed it.  Thanks for all the help man.

Matt