Dreamweaver - Replace with Regular expressions?

Question

I've got like 6 pages were i get both POST and GET data several times (PHP). I've now made a function that get's the data for me, so instead of typing:

$_POST['whatever'];

i now type:

gpost('whatever');

The problem i have is that i'm to lazy to replace each $_POST with gpost() (and $_GET with gget(). I know how to do that. But i need to remove the [] braces aswell. Otherwise it'd look like this: gpost(['whatever']), not really what i want.

But looking at the find/replace window in dreamweaver i saw a checkbox labeled "Use regular expressions". Therefore I ask; can someone help me create a regular expression that replaces this:

$_POST['whatever'];

with this:

gpost('whatever');

The replace window looks like this:

EDIT: I now found a site, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's what i came up with now: trentmueller.com/blog/search-and-replace-wildcard-characters-in-dreamweaver.html

Find:

$_GET['([^<]*)']

Replace:

gget("$1")

I get this error: unmatched ) in regular expression

Answer 1

If you need to replace this everywhere, unless I am missing something, there is no need to use Regular Expressions, simply do a regular replace and put $_POST['whatever']; as the find and gpost('whatever'); as the replace.

Change the drop downs to entire site and in source code only.

If you want to use Regular Expressions, Stack Overflow will most likely be your best bet for help, but I think you will be over complicating matters.

Answer 2

You have to escape the meta character, so try:

\$_GET\['([^<]*)'\]

and

gget("$1")

This works for me.