I added a shortcode for preg_replace to my SHORTcURL Plugin

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Eli Scheetz

Now, with a shortcode for the single most powerful PHP function there is (preg_replace), I dare to imagine that there is nothing that this simple plugin cannot do.

If you know what this amazing function, preg_replace, is capable of then put it to the test.

Here is an example of the syntax for the new new shortcode that calls preg_replace:

[preg_replace replace=”/to be searched/” with=”I replaced”]<li>The content to be searched</li>[/preg_replace]

and this is what you get:

The content I replaced

Download of SHORTcURL from WordPress.org

Globals Profiler (461.45 ms) SQL (109 queries in 18.91 ms) Errors (0) Toggle Close

$_GET = array (
);

$_POST = array (
);

$_COOKIE = array (
);

$_SESSION = array (
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  'GOTMLS_SESSION_TIME' => 1713971820.577179,
  'GOTMLS_detected_attacks' => '',
  'GOTMLS_login_attempts' => 0,
);

$_SERVER = array (
  'SERVER_SOFTWARE' => 'Apache',
  'REQUEST_URI' => '/2013/03/',
  'CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT' => '/home/elijah/sites/wordpress.ieonly.com/public_html',
  'CONTEXT_PREFIX' => '',
  'DOCUMENT_ROOT' => '/home/elijah/sites/wordpress.ieonly.com/public_html',
  'GATEWAY_INTERFACE' => 'CGI/1.1',
  'HTTP_ACCEPT' => '*/*',
  'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' => '',
  'HTTP_HOST' => 'wordpress.ieonly.com',
  'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)',
  'PATH' => '/bin',
  'PERL5LIB' => '/usr/share/awstats/lib:/usr/share/awstats/plugins',
  'QUERY_STRING' => '',
  'REDIRECT_HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' => '',
  'REDIRECT_PERL5LIB' => '/usr/share/awstats/lib:/usr/share/awstats/plugins',
  'REDIRECT_STATUS' => '200',
  'REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID' => 'ZikibKIOGAEFB7chSCtoNwAAAYY',
  'REDIRECT_URL' => '/2013/03/',
  'REMOTE_ADDR' => '3.146.105.194',
  'REMOTE_PORT' => '1567',
  'REQUEST_METHOD' => 'GET',
  'REQUEST_SCHEME' => 'http',
  'SCRIPT_FILENAME' => '/home/elijah/sites/wordpress.ieonly.com/public_html/index.php',
  'SCRIPT_NAME' => '/index.php',
  'SERVER_ADDR' => '158.69.23.200',
  'SERVER_ADMIN' => 'root@localhost',
  'SERVER_NAME' => 'wordpress.ieonly.com',
  'SERVER_PORT' => '80',
  'SERVER_PROTOCOL' => 'HTTP/1.1',
  'SERVER_SIGNATURE' => '',
  'UNIQUE_ID' => 'ZikibKIOGAEFB7chSCtoNwAAAYY',
  'dont_vary' => '1',
  'no_gzip' => '1',
  'PHP_SELF' => '/index.php',
  'REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT' => 1713971820.561093,
  'REQUEST_TIME' => 1713971820,
);

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I added a shortcode for preg_replace to my SHORTcURL Plugin