note 73305 added to function.str-replace

This is a more rigid alternative to spectrereturns at creaturestoke dot com's replace_different function: <?php function str_replace_many ($search, $replacements, $subject) { $index = strlen($subject); $replacements = array_reverse($replacements); if (count($replacements) != substr_count($subject, $search)) { return FALSE; } foreach ($replacements as $replacement) { $index = strrpos(substr($subject, 0, $index), $search); $prefix = substr($subject, 0, $index); $suffix = substr($subject, $index + 1); $subject = $prefix . $replacement . $suffix; } return $subject; } ?> This will return false if there are a different number of $replacements versus number of occurrences of $search in $subject. Additionally, $search much be exactly one character (if a string is provided, only the first character in the string will be used). Examples: <?php echo str_replace_many('?',array('Jane','banana'),'? is eating a ?.'); ?> prints: "Jane is eating a banana." ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 63.125.44.226 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/73305 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/73305 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/73305 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php