Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function ereg_replace() PHP 7

Question

below code is giving me the fatal error in php 7

    $jquery_click_hook = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", strtolower($value['name']));

is there any way to make it compatible with php 7?

Possible duplicate of [How can I convert ereg expressions to preg in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/6270004/1255289) — miken32, Apr 20 '17 at 19:48

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '16 at 11:49

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Switch to preg_replace^Docs and update the expression to use preg syntax (PCRE) instead of ereg syntax (POSIX) where there are differences^Docs (just as it says to do in the manual for ereg_replace^Docs).

Your above code should be this way:

$jquery_click_hook = preg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "", strtolower($value['name']));

answered Sep 13 '16 at 11:49

Hyder B.

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You should switch to mb_ereg_replace ; preg_replace has some issues with accented characters that I've not been able to resolve by changing locale, encoding etc. – Kohjah Breese Nov 29 '17 at 11:06

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '16 at 11:49

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ereg_replace function was DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3.0, and REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0. So you must have to use preg_replace() function instead of ereg_replace()

answered Sep 13 '16 at 11:49

Keyur Mistry

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Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function ereg_replace() PHP 7

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