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Marco
Marco

Reputation: 2737

Is it possible to replace part of a string with the content of an include file?

Is it possible to replace parts of a string with the content of an include file?

For example, this is my string

$string = '<p>The article title goes here bla bla bla...</p>{{ADD_AUTHOR_DETAILS_}}<p>The article body goes here...</p>';

Basically, I want to replace {{ADD_AUTHOR_DETAILS_}} with the content of an include file. The include file contains html tags, text, etc...

Is this possible in php and if yes, how?

EDIT

Some are asking what's inside the include file (php file). This is a sample

<div class="article-author"><?php
    if ( !empty($artistphoto) ) { ?>
        <img class="round" src="<?php echo $config['path']['artist_image'] . $artistphoto; ?>" width="" height="" alt="<?php echo $artistname; ?>"><?php
    } else { ?>
        <div class="placeholder round"><span></span></div><?php
    } ?><span><a href="<?php echo $config['reference']['library_author'] . $artisthref; ?>"><?php echo $artistname; ?></a></span>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 138

Answers (3)

ICanNowComment
ICanNowComment

Reputation: 115

You can use output buffering functions. See ob_start() and ob_get_clean()

<?php
ob_start();
include('path/to/your/file.php');
$content = ob_get_clean();

$string = '<p>The article title goes here bla bla bla...</p>{{ADD_AUTHOR_DETAILS_}}<p>The article body goes here...</p>';

echo str_replace('{{ADD_AUTHOR_DETAILS_}}', $content, $string);

OP said "include" not file_get_contents, though perhaps the other answer maybe what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 2

Progrock
Progrock

Reputation: 7485

You can replace multiple substrings with strtr.

<?php

$string = '@@HEADING@@, welcome, @@BODY@@, thankyou.';
$output = strtr($string, array(
    '@@HEADING@@' => file_get_contents('/tmp/heading.txt'),
    '@@BODY@@'    => file_get_contents('/tmp/body.txt')
));

print $output;

Upvotes: 1

Jim Wright
Jim Wright

Reputation: 6058

You can use file_get_contents to load the contents of a file, then use str_replace to replace the part of your string.

$myString = 'This is a lovely string... But [REPLACE_THIS]';
$fileContents = file_get_contents('my_replacement.txt');
$myString = str_replace('[REPLACE_THIS]', $fileContents, $myString);

Upvotes: 2

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