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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"].



-- 
Sandman[.net]

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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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