ereg_replace with predifined vars

[Anon]

I need to perform a replacement action on a piece of HTML code width "[" brackets "]" denoting what should be replaced.

I'm not having any problem identifying the replacements in the HTML, the problem is rather that I have an array of variables that should be replaced as follows:

$strHTML="<b>[Replacement]</b>";

$array["Replacement"]="Replaced";

ereg_replace("([)(+.)(])",$array[\2],$strHTML);

I know that \2 contains "Replacement" but I cant seem to use it as an array key to retrieve the correct value.

Please help, or explain why I can't get it to work.

[Anon]

Use preg_replace, with the e modifier. This gets preg_replace to treat the replacement text as PHP code.

preg_replace('/[(.+?)]/e', '$array["\1"]', $strHTML);

[Anon]

Brilliant!!!
Thanks alot Grumbler.

I tried using eval first, but got an eval(d) error.