regex for cleaner.php

[Delioncourt]

I am having a problem with the regular expression to use with cleaner.php in order to completely remove the following phpBB 2 BBcode while keeping the text between the tags:


[offtopic:522a0ada7e] text I want to keep [/offtopic:522a0ada7e]The numbers and letters inside the offtopic tags are ofcourse random.

[Jerry]

This will wrap it in quote tags :



$text = preg_replace('#\[offtopic:([a-z0-9]+)\](.*)\[/offtopic:\\1\]#siU', '
$2', $text);

This will remove the offtopic tags completely :



$text = preg_replace('#\[offtopic:([a-z0-9]+)\](.*)\[/offtopic:\\1\]#siU', '$2', $text);

[Delioncourt]

Thanks a lot I couldn't figure it out myself.. The '$2' was the issue in my case. It worked like a charm thanks again for your help !