I have a little coding I need help with and hope somebody can lend assistance.

Here is what I am trying to do, currently this works very well but I need to not replace any image tag that has an alt tag in it. Thanks.

preg_replace( "#<img(?:.+?)src=[\"'](\S+?)['\"][^>]+?>#is", "image holder", $comment );

Can you provide an example of what you want replaced and indicate what makes it qualify for replacement?

Absolutely!

I have a forum where I hide images from displaying to certain groups, now I can hide the images that are posted no problem. It's the smilies that are the issue, they get hidden to and I don't want that. There is a special tag inside the smilie image tag called emoid, so thought I could use a delimiter to accomplish it, here is an example of what an img might looks like:

img src="/images/smile.gif" emoid=":)" alt="smile.gif"

So only images that are not smilies I want to hide, show smilies.

Hmmm... I'll have to think about this a bit. A little swamped right now, but I'll try to look at it tonight. Maybe someone else can see a solution in the meantime.

Oh, and thanks for providing the extra code!

No problem! Let me know if you come up with anything cause I keep getting zip.

Look at this, I hope it will help you
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-fo...tml#post762639

I am not really seeing a solution there that I understand. Thanks for the example though.

I don't see how to do this with regular expressions. They look for what does exist, not the converse (afaik). If you had a characteristic about the other links which was not in the emoticons one, then you could ensure its presence in the replacement regex.

What I would do instead, is adjust the forum code to apply your reg ex before emoticons are added, if possible.

Though if I apply the regex when the emoticon is added how does that stop the link from being processed by the code?