implode and ereg_replace

[wardjame]

I use a form on my site to allow users to email the current page to a friend. This currently works fine but I would like to add some personalised text to the html email so I added a flag in the html file "<replaceflag>" and tried an reg_replace on it with a message but nothing seems to be happening. I still get the same html email with no message. Here is the code (I just echo the message here instead of emailing it):
$send_url="http://www.foo.bar/whatever.php"
$filename=$send_url;
$fcontents = implode ('', file ($filename));
ereg_replace("<replaceflag>",$replacestring,$fcontents);
$html_message=$fcontents;
echo $html_message;

Thanks for the help.

[Anon]

ereg_replace() returns the formatted string, so changing your line from:

ereg_replace("<replaceflag>",$replacestring,$fcontents);

to

$fcontents = ereg_replace("<replaceflag>",$replacestring,$fcontents);

Should do the trick.
Also, on a side note. Because you aren't doing any regular expression matching, I recommend simply using str_replace(). It'll be faster and cause less problems.

$fcontents = str_replace("<replaceflag>",$replacestring,$fcontents);

Hope this helps,
-Josh B

[wardjame]

Thanks Josh,
Works like a charm!