Question

I am trying to duplicate my C# string formatting where i can do something like this:

Console.Writeline("My name is [0].  I have been a [1] for [2] days.", "bob", "member", "12")

I want to be able to do this in PHP, but as far as I know the only function that resembles this is sprintf(). Is there a function that is identical to the one above

echo function("My name is [0].  I have been a [1] for [2] days.", "bob", "member", "12")

Answer 1

You could write your own function like e.g.

<?php
function Format($format /*, ... */) {
    $args = func_get_args();
    return preg_replace_callback('/\[(\\d)\]/',
        function($m) use($args) {
            // might want to add more error handling here...
            return $args[$m[1]+1];
        },
        $format
    );
}

$x = 'a';
$y = 'b';
echo Format('1=[1], 0=[0]', $x, $y);