str_replace - Something more flexible?

curb

I'm using str_replace for a template I'm trying to use. Sometimes I need the value to be all uppercased, uppercased words etc on the template. All the post values are lowercased.

Is there a way I can apply the strtolower,strtoupper etc functions into my template?

Here's an example:

<?php
//TEMPLATE.PHP
//Let's say the post value is "john" and "math".
//I want to be able to output the following case possiblities based on the template.
//My name is JOHN and I love math class.
//or
//My name is John and I love MATH class.

$gallery_page_gallery_index="My name is %name% and I love %class% class.";
?>

$temp_index = str_replace("%name%", $_POST[name], $temp_index);
$temp_index = str_replace("%class%", $_POST[class], $temp_index);

The only thing I can think of is to do this but it would be too much:

$temp_index = str_replace("%name_ucf%", ucfirst($_POST[name]), $temp_index);
$temp_index = str_replace("%name_ucw%", ucwords($_POST[name]), $temp_index);
etc...

Hendricus

Look into ereg_replace and eregi_replace!

Cheers

Weedpacket

The ereg functions are being downgraded; PHP's developers for some years now have recommended the preg_* family of functions.

curb wrote:
The only thing I can think of is to do this but it would be too much:

If you have to do something twice, consider writing a function to do it.

Hendricus

Weedpacket wrote:
The ereg functions are being downgraded; PHP's developers for some years now have recommended the preg_* family of functions.

Downgraded? Never heard about that... But if he looks into ereg_replace he would read that: preg_replace(), which uses a Perl-compatible regular expression syntax, is often a faster alternative to ereg_replace().

Weedpacket

Hendricus wrote:
Downgraded? Never heard about that...

http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#move-ereg-to-pecl

Hendricus

So ereg is becoming an extension to PHP ey?!
Weird! But good to know... strangely this isn't mentioned in the PHP function library on PHP .net eventhough this decision was made in 2005???

Thanx for the info weedpacket!

Cheers

Weedpacket

Like I said, the recommendations have been in the manual for years for users to wean themselves off ereg and its ilk. See, for example, the first two paragraphs that are said on the [man]regex[/man] page (the highlighted ones). I seem to recall those notes being there in 2003. (I also recall when PHP didn't have the PCRE functions by default. Then again, I also remember when PHP didn't have session management.)

scrupul0us

Weedpacket wrote:
Then again, I also remember when PHP didn't have session management.)

you're old 😃

sidsel

scrupul0us wrote:
you're old 😃

I remember upgrading from php3 to php4 (and renaming all .php3 files to .php :queasy: )