Hi,

I've been writing PHP for a few months now. It was fairly easy to pick up after knowing PERL. My question is this:

In PERL, you can design a static web page with variables such as USERNAME.. and then in your PERL script you can open the static web page into an array and do a search and replace for the variable, USERNAME, and replace USERNAME with let's say the input variable $username.. so it would look something like this:

Example:

open(STATIC, "staticwebpage.htm") || die "Unable to open web page";
@STATICARRAY = <STATIC>;
close(STATIC);

foreach $line (@STATICARRAY) {
$line =~ s/USERNAME/$username/g;
}

then, you know, print out array..

anyways.. is there a way of doing this in PHP.. bringing static pages into and array and search and replacing content with input variables? what would be the most effective way of doing this in PHP?

Warm Regards,

Angus Bay

Yep, there are a couple functions that do what you want. One is the simple str_replace() which is nice and speedy, used to do very simple things (ie. no regex), things like "{USERNAME}" etc. If you need the power of regex then preg_replace() is thereto the rescue! The examples there pretty much tell you what you need to know, it's also worth looking at the pattern modifiers.