Question

I am creating a function to parse text from a templating system, and add the corresponding values.

For example, the user might input hi [[first_name]] and the [[first_name]] part will be replaced with the actual first name.

Somehow, I parsed that and ended up with a text that looks like this:

hi $info['first_name']

The above is just as text though, what can I do to actually make $info[‘first_name’] be the value (I already have that array in there, but I am not sure how to convert string to PHP variable)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use simple str_replace function:

$str = "hi [[first_name]]";
foreach (array_keys($info) as $key) {
    $str = str_replace("[[".$key."]]", $info[$key], $str);
}
echo $str;