Parsing for Variables

[dbchip2000]

Hi,
Does anyone know how I could take a string say "Welcome user '[[username]]'" and then parse it with eregi or something to replace the text in between the [[ and ]], username in this case, with the variable according to the text between them, such as $username?
Hope this makes sense and any help would be great!

[Anon]

use str_replace() when possible, it uses less resources. I am assuming you are reading an entire file into a variable and then echoing it out? Use this...

$file_contents = str_replace("[[username]]", "$filtered_form_post_username", $file_contents);
and do the same for each variable. But why don't you just echo out the file contents with the $variables already in it?

$file_contents = "Welcome $filtered_form_post_username. Etc...";

print "$file_contents";

Anyway, I hope that helps you.

[dbchip2000]

But what if I want it more dynamic and the variable in the file might change. Is there a way to have it so that it gets the variable name and then gets the variable of that name?