str_replace help

I have a dg call that i want to do str_replace to several parts of the text.

How do i do str_repalce several times to the same text. like if I grabbed a story from the database and I wanted to replace every boston with miami and every Stan with Bob and every fly with drive how would i do that?

I can do one with :

echo str_replace("boston", "miami", "$text");

PHP:

but how do you do it multiple times

 

echo str_replace(
    array("boston", "Stan"),
    array("miami", "Bob"), $text);

PHP:

 

$text1 = str_replace('boston', 'miami', $text);
$text2 = str_replace('Stan', 'Bob', $text1);
$text3 = str_replace('fly", 'drive', $text2);

echo $text3;

 

This is a bad practice. Now you have 3 variables which hold (almost) exactly the same as the one you need. Plus you have 2 more function calls. It's unnecessary slow, and takes more resources.

Note that in PHP, you can overwrite variables anytime you want.

 

Thanks for the help. +rep for everyone