Hi,

Im trying to make a script that reads $string_of_words and replaces all the accronyms (specified in the $accronyms_list) with somthing like..
<accronym name="hypertext markup language">HTML</accronym>

this was my attempt that failed misaribly...

 
<?

$string_of_words = 'this is a string that contains accronyms like php , html and  xml';

$accronym_list = array('html', 'php', 'xml');

$accronym_defs = array('HyperText Markup Language',
                                        'php hypertext preprocessor',
                                        'extensible Markup language'
                                          );

for($i=0;$i<=(count($accronym_list)-1);$i++){

$new_string = str_replace(
                             $accronym_list[$i], '
       <accronym name="'.$accronym_defs[$i].'">'.    $accronym_list[$i].'</accronym>',$string_of_words);

}
echo $new_string;
?>

Im Really stuck on this hope it makes sense... plz help :S

    you do not need two separate arrays for this, just use one associative array.

    <?php
$accronyms = array(
'HTML' => 'Hypertext Markup Language',
'PHP' => 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor',
'XML' => 'Extensible Markup language'
);

foreach ($accronyms as $key => $value)
{
	$accronyms[$key] = '<accronym name="' . $value . '">' . $key . '</accronym>';
}

$string = 'this is a string that contains accronyms like PHP, HTML and XML';
echo str_replace(array_keys($accronyms), $accronyms, $string);
?>
      devinemke wrote: 
      <?php
$accronyms = array(
'HTML' => 'Hypertext Markup Language',
'PHP' => 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor',
'XML' => 'Extensible Markup language'
);

$string = 'this is a string that contains accronyms like PHP, HTML and XML';

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo str_replace(array_keys($accronyms), $accronyms, $string);
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// That's hot.  This should help me out in the future.
// Thanks for the vicarious help.
?>

      ..

        devin, just one little tweak, if you will permit me: (use the TITLE attribute in the acronym tag)

        <?php
// list of accronyms
$acronyms = array(
	'HTML' => 'Hypertext Markup Language',
	'PHP' => 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor',
	'XML' => 'Extensible Markup language',
	);

foreach ($acronyms as $key => $value){
	$acronyms[$key] = '<acronym title="' . $value . '">' . $key . '</acronym>';
}

$string = 'this is a string that contains accronyms like PHP, HTML and XML';
echo str_replace(array_keys($acronyms), $acronyms, $string);
?>

        PS. You totally rock, devinemke. I copied and pasted this in my snippets saved file 🙂

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