* The regular expression combines the shortcode tags in the regular expression
* in a regex class.
*
+ * The regular expresion contains 6 different sub matches to help with parsing.
+ *
+ * 1/6 - An extra [ or ] to allow for escaping shortcodes with double [[]]
+ * 2 - The shortcode name
+ * 3 - The shortcode argument list
+ * 4 - The self closing /
+ * 5 - The content of a shortcode when it wraps some content.
+ *
* @since 2.5
* @uses $shortcode_tags
*
$tagnames = array_keys($shortcode_tags);
$tagregexp = join( '|', array_map('preg_quote', $tagnames) );
- return '\[('.$tagregexp.')\b(.*?)(?:(\/))?\](?:(.+?)\[\/\1\])?';
+ return '(.?)\[('.$tagregexp.')\b(.*?)(?:(\/))?\](?:(.+?)\[\/\2\])?(.?)';
}
/**
* Regular Expression callable for do_shortcode() for calling shortcode hook.
+ * @see get_shortcode_regex for details of the match array contents.
*
* @since 2.5
* @access private
function do_shortcode_tag($m) {
global $shortcode_tags;
- $tag = $m[1];
- $attr = shortcode_parse_atts($m[2]);
+ // allow [[foo]] syntax for escaping a tag
+ if ($m[1] == '[' && $m[6] == ']') {
+ return substr($m[0], 1, -1);
+ }
+
+ $tag = $m[2];
+ $attr = shortcode_parse_atts($m[3]);
- if ( isset($m[4]) ) {
+ if ( isset($m[5]) ) {
// enclosing tag - extra parameter
- return call_user_func($shortcode_tags[$tag], $attr, $m[4], $tag);
+ return $m[1] . call_user_func($shortcode_tags[$tag], $attr, $m[5], $m[2]) . $m[6];
} else {
// self-closing tag
- return call_user_func($shortcode_tags[$tag], $attr, NULL, $tag);
+ return $m[1] . call_user_func($shortcode_tags[$tag], $attr, NULL, $m[2]) . $m[6];
}
}