diff --git a/includes/phplayers/layersmenu-common.inc.php b/includes/phplayers/layersmenu-common.inc.php
index 04f7aa3e..78e4ee56 100644
--- a/includes/phplayers/layersmenu-common.inc.php
+++ b/includes/phplayers/layersmenu-common.inc.php
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ function setMenuStructureFile($tree_file)
 */
 function setMenuStructureString($tree_string)
 {
-	$this->menuStructure = ereg_replace(chr(13), '', $tree_string);	// Microsoft Stupidity Suppression
+	$this->menuStructure = preg_replace("/".chr(13)."/", '', $tree_string);	// Microsoft Stupidity Suppression
 	if ($this->menuStructure == '') {
 		$this->error('setMenuStructureString: empty string.');
 		return false;
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ function _postParse(
 	for ($cnt=$this->_firstItem[$menu_name]; $cnt<=$this->_lastItem[$menu_name]; $cnt++) {	// this counter scans all nodes of the new menu
 		$this->tree[$cnt]['child_of_root_node'] = ($this->tree[$cnt]['level'] == 1);
 		$this->tree[$cnt]['parsed_text'] = stripslashes($this->tree[$cnt]['text']);
-		$this->tree[$cnt]['parsed_href'] = (ereg_replace(' ', '', $this->tree[$cnt]['href']) == '') ? '#' : $this->prependedUrl . $this->tree[$cnt]['href'];
+		$this->tree[$cnt]['parsed_href'] = (preg_replace('/ /', '', $this->tree[$cnt]['href']) == '') ? '#' : $this->prependedUrl . $this->tree[$cnt]['href'];
 		$this->tree[$cnt]['parsed_title'] = ($this->tree[$cnt]['title'] == '') ? '' : ' title="' . stripslashes($this->tree[$cnt]['title']) . '"';
 		$fooimg = $this->icondir . $this->tree[$cnt]['icon'];
 		if ($this->tree[$cnt]['icon'] != '' && (substr($this->tree[$cnt]['icon'], 0, 7) == 'http://' || substr($this->tree[$cnt]['icon'], 0, 8) == 'https://')) {
diff --git a/modules/core/auth_generate_admin_menu.inc.php b/modules/core/auth_generate_admin_menu.inc.php
index 767e765b..fcd26686 100644
--- a/modules/core/auth_generate_admin_menu.inc.php
+++ b/modules/core/auth_generate_admin_menu.inc.php
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function auth_generate_admin_menu($menu_obj)
 						if(empty($meth_arr[2]))
 							$page = $module.':'.$method;
 						else
-							$page = eregi_replace('%%', $module, $meth_arr[2]);
+							$page = preg_replace('/%%/', $module, $meth_arr[2]);
 
 						$module_arr[$i]["methods"][] = Array('name' => $method_name, 'page' => $page);
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function auth_generate_admin_menu($menu_obj)
 										if(empty($meth_arr[2]))
 											$page = $module.':'.$method;
 										else
-											$page = eregi_replace('%%', $module, $meth_arr[2]);
+											$page = preg_replace('/%%/', $module, $meth_arr[2]);
 										$module_arr[$i]["sub_methods"][$ii][] = Array('name' => $method_name, 'page' => $page);
 									}
 								}
diff --git a/modules/core/database.inc.php b/modules/core/database.inc.php
index 1cde55df..7bd5b9e4 100644
--- a/modules/core/database.inc.php
+++ b/modules/core/database.inc.php
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ function sqlConditions( &$db, $Conditions=false, $Tables=false )
 	$where = " WHERE ";
 
 	if($Conditions) {
-		if(ereg('::', $Conditions) ) {
+		if(preg_match('/::/', $Conditions) ) {
 			$s = explode('::', $Conditions);
 			$ii=1;
 			$Conditions = '';
diff --git a/modules/core/method.inc.php b/modules/core/method.inc.php
index b40f6a2a..93e02d54 100644
--- a/modules/core/method.inc.php
+++ b/modules/core/method.inc.php
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class CORE_method
 		{
 			if(!empty($VAR['do'][$i]))
 			{
-				if(ereg(":", $VAR['do'][$i]))
+				if(preg_match("/:/", $VAR['do'][$i]))
 				{
 					$identifier = explode(':',$VAR['do'][$i]);
 					$module = $identifier[0];
diff --git a/modules/core/theme.inc.php b/modules/core/theme.inc.php
index 6124e4e9..69e46cd5 100644
--- a/modules/core/theme.inc.php
+++ b/modules/core/theme.inc.php
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class CORE_theme
 						$i++;
 					}
 				}
-				$url = ereg_replace('tid=default_admin', '', $url);
+				$url = preg_replace('/tid=default_admin/', '', $url);
 				$smarty->assign('mainFrameUrl', $url);
 				$this_template = 'file:'.PATH_THEMES.''.THEME_NAME.'/template.tpl';
 				$smarty->display($this_template);
diff --git a/modules/db_mapping/db_mapping.inc.php b/modules/db_mapping/db_mapping.inc.php
index 09b86e2d..b37588f0 100644
--- a/modules/db_mapping/db_mapping.inc.php
+++ b/modules/db_mapping/db_mapping.inc.php
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class db_mapping
 		$this->construct();
 
 		$type = "view";
-		$this->method["$type"] = split(",", $this->method["$type"]);
+		$this->method["$type"] = explode(",", $this->method["$type"]);
 		$db = new CORE_database;
 		 $db->view($VAR, $this, $type);
 
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ class db_mapping
 		{
 			if($file_name != '..' && $file_name != '.')
 			{
-				$result[$count]['name'] = eregi_replace('.php', '', $file_name);
+				$result[$count]['name'] = preg_replace('/.php/', '', $file_name);
 				$result[$count]['id']   = $count;
 
 				### Get the status of this plugin: