calling function inside preg_replace thats inside a function

Question

I have some code with the a structure similar to this

           function bbcode($Text)
           { //$Text = preg_replace(\"/\\[video\\](.+?)\\[\\/video\\]         


        

Answer 1

try preg_replace_callback

return preg_replace_callback("/\[video\](.+?)\[\/video\]/", 'embed_video', $Text);

function embed_video($matches)
{
  return $matches[1] . 'foo';      
}

Answer 2

You can use the "e" modifier on preg_replace() (see Pattern Modifiers)

return preg_replace("/\[video\](.+?)\[\/video\]/e", "embed_video('$1')", $Text);

which tells preg_replace() to treat the second parameter as PHP code.