[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Lynch) writes:
> A "callback" is when you execute a function, and you provide to it a name of
> *another* function, which it will call on some data in the middle of its
> task.
>
> It's a very handy way to provide extreme flexibility in functional
> languages.
>
> For example:
>
> function my_array_walk($array, $function){
> while (list($k, $v) = each($array)){
> # Here's the magic that implements a 'callback'
> $function($k, $v);
> }
> }
>
> function your_echo($key, $value){
> echo "$key $value<BR>\n";
> }
>
> $foo = array('a'=>1, 'b'=>2, 'c'=>3);
>
> my_array_walk($foo, 'your_echo');
>
> This rather silly example will "walk" the array and call 'your_echo' on each
> key/value pair.
>
> Dunno exactly how preg_ uses it though...
It calls the callback function for each match, passing it an array.
The matching string is replaced by whatever the callback function returns.
Here's a fairly pointless example of names and email addresses being replaced
by mailto links with a bit of extra processing on their name...
-robin
<?php
function mailto( $match ) {
// match[0] contains the complete matched string.
// match[1] contains the first parenthesised subpattern.
// match[2] contains the second parenthesised subpattern.
// etc...
$match[1] = strrev($match[1]);
return "<a href=\"mailto:{$match[2]}\";>{$match[1]}</a>";
}
$testString =<<<EOS
"John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Tommy Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Davey Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
EOS;
$outputString = preg_replace_callback('/"(.+?)"\s*<(.+?)>/', 'mailto', $testString);
print "<pre> $outputString </pre>";
?>
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