Trying to create my first script...

[OCSupertones]

I am trying to create a server side find and replace script. I borrowed some of the code from another script, but the main part of the script was encoded.

I am a newbie to PHP but have been reading at php.net and MelonFire.com's free tutorials.

here is what I have in my script:

<?php

// Sets location to search
$location = $_POST['location'];

// The string to replace
$find = $_POST['find'];

// The string that replaces $find
$replace = $_POST['replace'];

// Runs through text to replace $find
$output = str_replace($find , $replace , $location);

// Display the output of what happened
echo $output;

?>

Whenever I run it from the form page, all it outputs is the $location.

I know i'm doing something wrong and I don't know is str_replace() is the best function for this. Let me know if preg_replace() or ereg_replace() would be better, I don't know the difference.

Thanks,

Brandon

[crazychris]

Your code works fine. It may be that your $_POST variables do not have any values in them, or the right values.

Echo them to screen before printing them and make sure they contain the values you think they do. Also check the form is POSTing not GETting otherwise the $_POST won't be filled.

<?php 

// Sets location to search 
$location = $_POST['location']; 
// The string to replace 
$find = $_POST['find']; 
// The string that replaces $find 
$replace = $_POST['replace']; 
// Runs through text to replace $find 
$output = str_replace($find , $replace , $location); 
// Display the output of what happened 
print "location: " . $location . "<br>";
print "find: " . $find. "<br>";
print "replace: " . $replace. "<br>";
echo $output; 

?>

[OCSupertones]

Here is my form (uploaded) that I am using to $_POST to the script above.

Thanks for the help so quick.