Question

Ok I’ve been up all weekend and apparently my brain has imploded – I just can’t conquer something that should be easy I think:

Using PHP. I have a variable:

$pageid = 9999;

and I have a template page full of hundreds of statements, like:

<?php $simplex->menu( 200029999, 200009999,1); ?>

(The 9999 is at the end of each number in every case)

In all of these statements, I need to replace the 9999 with the variable $pageid so that this number is no longer hardcoded (figuring to bulk replace using notepad++).

But for some reason I can’t come up with a working syntax and my attempts to find an example here are failing too. Any hints appreciated!!

UPDATE for clarification:

In the end I want the statement to have $pageid coded into it, i.e.

<?php $simplex->menu( 20002'.$pageid.', 20000'.$pageid.',1); ?>

Obviously my above example is complete FUBAR but just trying to illustrate the end result I’m trying to achieve… then whatever value is assigned to $pageid will be applied to the statement itself.

Answer 1

So it seems to me that you want to refactor your code. This might seem hard to do with search/replace but your line could look something like this:

<?php $simplex->menu( intval('20002'.$pageid), intval('20000'.$pageid), 1); ?>

This way you can later change the value of $pageid and everything will work.

To replace this in notepadd++ use regex: find (\d+)9999, replace with intval('\1'.$pageid), and check Regular expression option.
Here’s the screenshot