Str_replace for multiple items - php

Question

I remember doing this before, but can't find the code. I use str_replace to replace one character like this: str_replace(':', ' ', $string); but I want to replace all the following characters \/:*?"<>|, without doing a str_replace for each.

Answer 1

Like this:
str_replace(array(':', '\\', '/', '*'), ' ', $string);
Or, in modern PHP (anything from 5.4 onwards), the slighty less wordy:
str_replace([':', '\\', '/', '*'], ' ', $string);

Answer 2

str_replace() can take an array, so you could do:
$new_str = str_replace(str_split('\\/:*?"<>|'), ' ', $string);
Alternatively you could use preg_replace():
$new_str = preg_replace('~[\\\\/:*?"<>|]~', ' ', $string);

Answer 3

For example, if you want to replace search1 with replace1 and search2 with replace2 then following code will work:
print str_replace(
array("search1","search2"),
array("replace1", "replace2"),
"search1 search2"
);
// Output: replace1 replace2

Answer 4

str_replace(
array("search","items"),
array("replace", "items"),
$string
);

Answer 5

If you're only replacing single characters, you should use strtr()

Answer 6

You could use preg_replace(). The following example can be run using command line php:
<?php
$s1 = "the string \\/:*?\"<>|";
$s2 = preg_replace("^[\\\\/:\*\?\"<>\|]^", " ", $s1) ;
echo "\n\$s2: \"" . $s2 . "\"\n";
?>
Output:
$s2: "the string "

Answer 7

I had a situation whereby I had to replace the HTML tags with two different replacement results.
$trades = "<li>Sprinkler and Fire Protection Installer</li>
<li>Steamfitter </li>
<li>Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Setter</li>";
$s1 = str_replace('<li>', '"', $trades);
$s2 = str_replace('</li>', '",', $s1);
echo $s2;
result
"Sprinkler and Fire Protection Installer", "Steamfitter ", "Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Setter",

Answer 8

I guess you are looking after this:
// example
private const TEMPLATE = __DIR__.'/Resources/{type}_{language}.json';
...
public function templateFor(string $type, string $language): string
{
return \str_replace(['{type}', '{language}'], [$type, $language], self::TEMPLATE);
}

Answer 9

In my use case, I parameterized some fields in an HTML document, and once I load these fields I match and replace them using the str_replace method.
<?php echo str_replace(array("{{client_name}}", "{{client_testing}}"), array('client_company_name', 'test'), 'html_document'); ?>