Question

I have 2 output from a php function as below

First output gives me some thing like this

INSERT INTO "table1" ('column1', 'column2', 'column3') VALUES (?,?,?)
INSERT INTO "table2" ('column1', 'column2', 'column3','column4','column5') VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)

Other output gives

Array = (
1 => 'value1',
2 => 'value2',
3 => 'value3',
)

Array = (
1 => 'value1',
2 => 'value2',
3 => 'value3',
4 => 'value4',
5 => 'value5',
)

and now I want to do the following..
How can I replace the “?” in the first INSERT QUERY with values value1, value2 and value3 and same way for the second query the values in the second array.

regards

Answer 1

Generic solution:

function replaceWithArray($query, $array) {
    $n = 0;
    return preg_replace('~\?~e', '$array[$n++]', $query);
}

example on Codepad

Note: If you want to replace ? only betwen parenthesis, use a lookbehind like this: preg_replace('~\?(?=[^\(\)]*\))~e', '$array[$n++]', $query);