diff --git a/includes/classes/class_faq.inc b/includes/classes/class_faq.inc
--- a/includes/classes/class_faq.inc
+++ b/includes/classes/class_faq.inc
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 		$this->question = $question;
 		$this->answer = $answer;
 		if ($anchor == "")
-			$this->anchor = ereg_replace("[^a-zA-Z]", "", $this->question);
+			$this->anchor = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z]/", "", $this->question);
 		else
 			$this->anchor = $anchor;
 	}
diff --git a/includes/dotandapps.inc b/includes/dotandapps.inc
--- a/includes/dotandapps.inc
+++ b/includes/dotandapps.inc
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@
 
     for($x=1;$x<=$rdf_items;$x++)
     {
-      ereg("<title>(.*)</title>",$rdf_pieces[$x],$title );
-      ereg("<link>(.*)</link>",$rdf_pieces[$x],$links );
-      ereg("<pubDate>(.*)</pubDate>",$rdf_pieces[$x],$date );
+      preg_match("#<title>(.*)</title>#",$rdf_pieces[$x],$title );
+      preg_match("#<link>(.*)</link>#",$rdf_pieces[$x],$links );
+      preg_match("#<pubDate>(.*)</pubDate>#",$rdf_pieces[$x],$date );
 
       $title[1] = utf8_encode($title[1]);
 
       // Cut down the month to three letters format day and month to DD MMM
-      $printDate2 = ereg_replace("[a-zA-Z]+,[[:blank:]]*([0-9]+)[[:blank:]]+([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]).*$", "\\1&nbsp;\\2", $date[1]);
+      $printDate2 = preg_replace("#[a-zA-Z]+,[[:blank:]]*([0-9]+)[[:blank:]]+([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]).*$#", "\\1&nbsp;\\2", $date[1]);
 
       $entry = "<tr>\n" . 
         "<td valign=\"top\" class=\"cell_date\"><b>$printDate2</b></td>\n" . 
diff --git a/includes/rss2.inc b/includes/rss2.inc
--- a/includes/rss2.inc
+++ b/includes/rss2.inc
@@ -89,17 +89,17 @@
       {
         print "<td valign=\"top\">".(($cookedDate == $prevDate) ? "&nbsp;" : "<b>$cookedDate</b>")."</td>\n";
         if ($useexternallinks) print "<td><a href=\"$links[1]\">$title[1]</a></td>\n";
-        else print "<td><a href=\"news.php#item" . ereg_replace("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "", $title[1]) . "\">$title[1]</a></td>\n";
+        else print "<td><a href=\"news.php#item" . preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/", "", $title[1]) . "\">$title[1]</a></td>\n";
         $prevDate=$cookedDate;
       }
       else
       {
         // We need to unescape the XML/HTML character references in the <description>
         $desc = $description[1];
-        $desc = ereg_replace("&lt;","<", $desc);
-        $desc = ereg_replace("&gt;",">", $desc);
-        $desc = ereg_replace("&amp;","&", $desc);
-        print "<td><h3><a name=\"item" . ereg_replace("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "", $title[1]) . "\">$cookedDate: $title[1]</a></h3></td>\n";
+        $desc = preg_replace("/&lt;/","<", $desc);
+        $desc = preg_replace("/&gt;/",">", $desc);
+        $desc = preg_replace("/&amp;/","&", $desc);
+        print "<td><h3><a name=\"item" . preg_replace("[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "", $title[1]) . "\">$cookedDate: $title[1]</a></h3></td>\n";
         print "</tr><tr><td>$desc</td>\n";
       }
       print "</tr>\n";