A little help with str replace needed

My script gets $state from the search parameter, i would like it to spell out the word for every state, if possible in 1 line of code so that i can just put $stateword as the replacement regardless of the state.

This works for 1 state, i just dont know how to add more states to it

$stateword = str_replace("fl", "Florida", "$state");

Thanks

 

$stateword = str_replace('fl', 'Florida', $state);
$stateword = str_replace('ca', 'California', $stateword);
$stateword = str_replace('or', 'Oregon', $stateword);

PHP:

You don't need to enclose a variable in double quotes, and for your other quotes use single quotes when you just have plain text, PHP executes code faster that way.
Althought str_replace does the job, you will be using up more processing than needed, might I suggest using a switch function instead?

function get_state($state)
{
	switch($state)
	{
		case 'ca':
			return 'California';
			break;
		case 'fl':
			return 'Florida';
			break;
		default:
			return false;
			break;
	}
}

PHP:

use like this:

$state = get_state($state);

PHP:

Happy coding!

 

You could also use an array and even put it in function like so:

Function

<?php

function get_state($state)    {

   $state_names = array('fl' => 'Florida',
                          'ca' => 'California'
                                 );

  $state_name = $state_names[ $state ];

  return $state_name;

}

?>

PHP:

You could simply keep adding to that array as it is structured then call the function:

<?php

   $state = get_state('fl');

?>

PHP:

To me the above way is a lot easier and takes less processing as you are only consulting an array.