Modifying Dreamweaver Template Class (PHP & Regex)

Hi all, I'm loving this board, and this is my first post. I've been kicking around the idea of writing my own CMS, I know there are plenty pre-written projects out there but I want to tailor specifically for my needs. Anyways, I came across Chris Marshall's Dreamweaver Template Class that seems very promising: cmarshall.com/MySoftware/DreamweaverTemplate. I liked that I could access a Dreamweaver template via PHP and pull the template areas into a web form for editing. Dreamweaver template areas are blocks of code marked, beginning and end, by HTML comments.

Anyways, I?m having some success so far but there is one issue that I cannot seem to figure out.  Chris?s Dreamweaver Class will ?read? a Dreamweaver template file into a web form, but upon hitting submit doesn?t preserver the HTML comments that define the template areas. This can be seen even on Chris?s demo on his project page, do a view source on the empty template file that he provides.  In order to use this PHP Class as the engine of my CMS, I need to preserve the Dreamweaver template tags (HTML comments) so the page can be edited over and over again.

I've never been good at Regex and I've made the following change to line 86 of the project but for some reason I still cannot get the returning code to retain the HTML comments.

Original line:

Code:

<?php
$template_file = preg_split ( '/<!-- .*?BeginEditable [^"]*"|<!-- .*?EndEditable -->/',  $template_file );
?>

My Change:

Code:

<?php
$template_file = preg_split ( '/<!-- .*?BeginEditable [^"]*"|<!-- .*?EndEditable -->/',  $template_file, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE)
?>

When I test my new code, it seems to break on the closing part of the template area "<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->." Does anyone happen to what I might be doing wrong and have any suggestions? Thanks in advance and let me know if I can answer any other questions...

PL

edit: I had to remove the http from my link because I'm a new poster...

you could try regexbuddy to check you regex strings....maybe it will lessen the hassle..just google regexbuddy..cheers

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