PHP - Searching for string and outputting into new string - php

Question

Let's say I put the following into a textbox:
1|[Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)|6|5-1-0|+15|**16**
2|[Shandong Luneng](//www.lunengsports.com/)|7|5-1-1|+7|**16**
3|[Qingdao Jonoon](//www.zhongnengfc.com/)|7|4-3-0|+4|**15**
4|[Beijing Guoan](//www.fcguoan.com/)|7|3-3-1|+2|**12**
when I press enter, it would take what's between the [ and ] and ( and ) and put it into new lines like this:
if ($name == "NAME_HERE") $name = "[".$name."](URL_HERE)";
I tried doing preg_match and using this pattern: $pattern = '/^[/'; and $pattern_end = '/^]/'; for the name -- jsut to test -- but I cannot get it to work....
Here is what I have so far:
$string = '1|[Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)|6|5-1-0|+15|**16**';
$pattern = '/\[(.*?\)].*?\((.*?)\)/';
$replacement = 'if ($name == "{1}") $name = "[".$name."]({2})";';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

Answer 1

Your pattern should be
'/\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\)/'
because [ ] and ( ) are special characters. Use preg_match_all() function
when you use preg_match_all you can put () for submatches(subpattern)
example
<?php
$string = '1|[Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)|6|5-1-0|+15|**16**';
$matches = array();
preg_match_all("/(<([\w]+)[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/\\2>)/", $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
?>

Answer 2

Perhaps I don't fully understand what you are doing here, but, I see a data structure that can be exploded without a hassle. For example:
function get_football( $text ) {
$r = array();
$t = explode("\n", $text );
foreach( $t as $l ) {
$n = explode("|", $l);
$r[] = $n;
}
return( $r );
}
This will get you a nicely structured set of data that you can foreach() through and further process. If the original text is stored inside $variable0, print_r( get_football( $variable0 ) ); will show a nice structure:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => [Guangzhou Evergrande](//www.gzevergrandefc.com/)
[2] => 6
[3] => 5-1-0
[4] => +15
[5] => **16**
)
[1] => Array
Of course, that $n[1] name can be broken down further in the loop. Anyhow, thereafter, you can loop through whatever menu you're building with a foreach() loop instead of hardcoding menu choices. Just something to consider.