[pmwiki-users] Fwd: MarkupExtensions throwing 500 error on DropCaps

[the Other michael]

That did the trick! Thanks!

PHP is still 4.x -- the diagnose extensions are on, if you need to take a look.

On 3/20/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:21:50PM -0400, the Other michael wrote:
> > and if disable the drop-caps, everything is happy again
> >
> > $MarkupExtensions['A;'] = false;
> > @#$*@#*&)*
> >
> > I don't have a dedicated server, so I have no access to error
> > messages. Anybody have any ideas?
>
> It looks to me as though the drop-caps pattern has the potential
> for an infinite recursion in it, or at least a very deep one.
>
> By any chance is your server running PHP 5.2.0 or later?
> PHP 5.2.0 introduced a number of changes to PCRE regular
> expression handling.  Perhaps your service provider upgraded
> PHP recently.
>
> Anyway, in the recipe, try changing lines 321-322 (or thereabouts) from
>
>     Markup('A;','block','/^([[:upper:]]);(([^;&]*(&[^;]+;)*)*);(.*)$/',
>     '<:block><p class=\'drop\'>$1<span class=\'smallcaps\'>$2</span>$5</p>');
>
> to
>
>     Markup('A;','block','/^([[:upper:]]);((?:&\\w+;|[^;])*);(.*)$/',
>     '<:block><p class=\'drop\'>$1<span class=\'smallcaps\'>$2</span>$3</p>');
>
> and see if that fixes the problem.
>
> Pm

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