Re: Re: Help with preg_replace

On 08/11/2007, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote: > Al wrote: > > Delimiters needed. Can use about anything not already in your pattern. > > "/" is very commonly used; but I like "#" or "%" generally; > > but, you > > can't use "%" because your pattern has it. > > > > $html = preg_replace("#%ResID#",$bookid,$html); > > wont a str_replace() do just fine in this case? > > // and we can do backticks too ;-) > $html = str_replace("%ResID", $bookid, cat htmlfile); As Jochem said. But don't use backticks, use file_get_contents(). It's portable and you don't start up a new process just to read a file. $html = str_replace('%ResID', $bookid, file_get_contents('htmlfile')); -robin