Question

I have a basic string question in PHP.

Let’s say I have a variable $story:

$story = 'this story is titled and it is really good';

How would I go about adding a string after ‘titled’ and before ‘and’?
If I had the title in a another variable, let say

$title = 'candy';

What function or method could I use to do this?

$story = 'this story is titled and it is really good';
$title = 'candy';
// do something
var_dump($story === 'this story is titled candy and it is really good'); // TRUE

Answer 1

There are a few options.

$title = 'candy';
$story = 'this story is titled '.$title.' and it is really good';
$story = "this story is titled $title and it is really good";
$story = sprintf('this story is titled %s and it is really good', $title);

See:

• http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php

If you are using php with html and want to print the string (outside of php tags)

this story is titled <?php echo $title ?> and it is really good