PHP Regex markdown from string

Question

I have this string: "Download it from [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-admin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-admin/)";

And i'm trying to convert this markdown to actual HTML, i tried getting the matches like so:

preg_match_all('/[(.*?)]((.*?))/', $data[$toProcess], $links);
debug($links);

Yet this..did not work.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to convert this markdown into HTML.

ps. i'd rather not import the whole markdown library.

Why would you write that yourself? Use an existing library for that, e.g. this one. — Till Helge
– Till Helge, Commented Nov 28, 2011 at 11:17

codaddict · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-28 11:16:13Z

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You need to escape the [, ], ( and ) as they are all regex meta-characters:

preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\)/', $data[$toProcess], $links);

answered Nov 28, 2011 at 11:16

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