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Re: variable replacement in string

From "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: variable replacement in string
Date 2012-05-10 18:37 +0200
Message-ID <a1295sFv8lU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink)
References <a11rgoFph0U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> <mr-739F0E.16101410052012@News.Individual.NET>

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Am 10.05.2012 16:10, schrieb Sandman:
> In article <a11rgoFph0U1@mid.uni-berlin.de>,
>  "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am still searching a function in PHP to execute variable replacement in 
>> strings.
>> Other languages do have this, but for PHP I can only find sprintf() and 
>> string replace.
>>
>> I have
>>
>> $t = ' - solved - ';
>> $msg = 'The problem is $t';
>>
>> I want now:
>>
>> echo fxx($msg);
>>
>> print out  "The problem is  - solved - ".
>>
>> Please don't tell me about $msg = "The problem is $t"; just think of $msg 
>> like a
>> template read from a file.
>>
>> /Str.
> 
> Before coding PHP I used Roxen and their "RXML" language, which was 
> pretyt much just fancy HTML (RXML stood for Roxen Markup Language) and 
> they had variable templating in strings. When moving to PHP I missed 
> this.
> 
> So I have this templet string for headline formatting in blog posts 
> (for instance):
> 
>     $template = "<h2>#headline#</h2>
>      #date#, <span class='subline'>#category#</span>";
> 
> And then I have an array with the blog post:
> 
>     $article = array(
>         "headline" => "Hello world!",
>         "date" => "2012-04-23",
>         "category" => "Fun stuff"
>     );
> 
> And I have this function I call "parserxml()" which is "Parse rxml" 
> not "parser xml" :)
> 
>     function parserxml($string, $var = false) {
>         # RXML 1.0
>         $string = preg_replace("/#([a-z]+)#/se", "\$var['\\1']", 
> $string);
>         # RXML 2.0
>         if (preg_match_all("/&([a-z_A-Z]+)\./i", $string, $matches)) {
>             foreach($matches[1] as $m) {
>                 global $$m;
>             }
>             $string = 
> preg_replace("/&([a-zA-Z_]+)\.([a-zA-Z_]+);/sei", "\${\\1}['\\2']", 
> $string);
>         }
>         return $string;
>     }
> 
> Which I use as such:
> 
>     print parserxml($template, $article);
> 
> You may also note that there is support for "RXML 2.0" in that 
> function as well, which used a slightly different syntax that could 
> define scope as well:
> 
>     $template = "<h2>#headline#</h2>&user.name;"
> 
> The second part would globalize $user and replace that with 
> $user["name"].

This type of solution was commented already with a one-liner: create my own variable
system?

Thank you for this complete proposal. You are the first to know what I am missing.

/Str.

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variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 14:44 +0200
  Re: variable replacement in string The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-10 14:00 +0100
    Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 15:07 +0200
  Re: variable replacement in string Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2012-05-10 15:05 +0200
    Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 15:08 +0200
      Re: variable replacement in string The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-10 14:11 +0100
        Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 18:21 +0200
          Re: variable replacement in string The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-10 21:50 +0100
            Re: variable replacement in string Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-10 17:06 -0400
              Re: variable replacement in string Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-05-10 15:31 -0700
                Re: variable replacement in string The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-11 01:08 +0100
      Re: variable replacement in string Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2012-05-10 15:13 +0200
        Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 18:23 +0200
      Re: variable replacement in string Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2012-05-11 16:06 +0200
  Re: variable replacement in string Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-10 09:14 -0400
    Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 18:29 +0200
      Re: variable replacement in string Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-05-10 14:12 -0400
  Re: variable replacement in string Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-05-11 00:04 +1000
    Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 18:32 +0200
      Re: variable replacement in string Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-05-11 12:30 +1000
        Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-11 09:32 +0200
  Re: variable replacement in string Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2012-05-10 16:10 +0200
    Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 18:37 +0200
      Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-10 18:38 +0200
      Re: variable replacement in string Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2012-05-11 15:48 +0200
  Re: variable replacement in string "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-05-11 09:58 +0200
    Re: variable replacement in string "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-05-11 10:31 +0200

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