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?

Answer 1

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']));

Answer 2

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()