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Jessica
Jessica

Reputation: 451

Trouble with str_replace within an if statement

I'm having some trouble using str_replace within an if statement. I'm wanting to remove plural formatting ('s) from some text I'm outputting.

I supply a keyword that is included with the text output. So if my keyword has an 's' as the last character I want the plural characters stripped from the output. For example if the keyword is 'handbags' I'm wanting to echo "I love handbags" rather than "I love handbags's". This is what I've come up with but it does not work.

<?php
$keyword = "handbags";

$string = "I love $keyword's.";

$last = substr($keyword, -1);

if ($last == "s") {str_replace("'s", "", $string);}

echo $string;
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1509

Answers (5)

MHowey
MHowey

Reputation: 681

This should do the trick

$keyword = "handbag";
$string = "I love $keyword";

$string_count = strlen($string)-1;
$string_check = substr($string,$string_count,1); 

if($string_check == "s"){
    $string = str_replace("s", "'s", $string);
    echo "$string.";
    }
    else {
    echo $string."'s.";
}

Upvotes: 0

Hussam
Hussam

Reputation: 510

You can also use:

$string = "I love $keyword".(substr($keyword, -1)=="s"?".":"'s.");

saves you a couple lines of code :)

Upvotes: 2

Elvin Haci
Elvin Haci

Reputation: 3572

This is correct variant:

    <?php
$keyword = "handbags";

$string = "I love $keyword's.";

$last = substr($keyword, -1);

if ($last == "s") {$string=str_replace("'s", "", $string);}

echo $string;
?>

Upvotes: 1

mfonda
mfonda

Reputation: 8003

str_replace returns a value and does not act on the string by reference. You need to assign the result back to the string:

$string = str_replace("'s", "", $string);

Upvotes: 2

Chris G.
Chris G.

Reputation: 3981

if ($last == "s") { $string = str_replace("'s", "", $string);}

Upvotes: 3

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