note 115946 added to function.str-replace

"If search is an array and replace is a string, then this replacement string is used for every value of search. The converse would not make sense, though. " I think one important (and not at all vaguely theoretical) use-case is completely ignored here. Take, for example, the way the PDO handles parameter replacement. If we have the following query: "SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE (id = ? AND my_column = ? AND other_column = ?);" The "?"s should be replaced by each successive variable in a $parameters array. That is EXACTLY the use case for "search" being a value and "replace" being an array. Considering that this is not only a real-world example but also part of a core PHP functionality I find it very strange that it's dismissed so easily here. ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 88.159.23.235 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/115946 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/115946 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/115946 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php