str_replace

$sss = '[pagetitle]';
$ss = str_replace("_", " ", $sss);
 echo $ss;

PHP:

it sees it,but wont replace the underscores.

$sss = "some_thing"; it will.

it shouldn't matter since [pagetitle] passed from $sss to  $ss :confused:

PHP:

 

Well this is weird, it works for me.

 

I dont really get what you want to do...
if $sss contains varible '[pagetitle]' its cant replace _ becuse '[pagetitle]' dont have it...

str_replace replace only values that inside the value you looking for

try to do this

$var = '[pagetitle]';
$var2 = str_replace( "_", " ", $var, $count);
print "var1: $var\n var2: $var2\n count of replaces: $count";
exit();

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it will show you the number of times the str_replace find and replace your searched value.

hope it'll help ya

 

Your $sss does not contains any underscores that's why.

:: ads2help

 

as a good rule of thumb echo out $sss to see what it contains. Then you know if it contain illegal charactors. else{it wont work}

 

[pagetitle] is the function that pulls some_thing from the database.
my code works,but it doesn't remove the underscore from some_thing.

if i replace $sss = '[pagetitle]'; with $sss = "some_thing"; it removes the underscore.

 

I think it is still a grave mystery to everyone what you are talking about. Is [pagetitle] supposed to be some sort of placeholder for an actual function call, for the purposes of this forum post? If so, putting quotes around it is a very confusing way to present it to us.

Why don't you echo $sss immediately prior to the str_replace() call to see if it really contains what you thought it did?

 

$sss = '[pagetitle]';
$find = "_";
if (strpos($sss, $find) === FALSE)
{ 
  var_dump($sss);
}

else str_replace("_", " ", $sss);

PHP:

Try this, should help debugging.

 

before

<h2>[pagetitle]</h2>

PHP:

after

<?
$sss = '[pagetitle]';
$ss = str_replace("_", " ", $sss);
?>
<h2><?php  echo $ss; ?></h2>

PHP:

exact coding.
both work the same,but the second one doesn't remove the underscore.

i'm not sure where the pagetitle is pulled from the functions.
[pagetitle] is like an echo,so i don't get why it doesn't replace the underscores,unless it has to be on the $ in the functions.

 

I don't know what you think square brackets do, but I can assure you they don't do it. Maybe you are thinking of {curly brackets}?

$sss = '[pagetitle'];

has exactly one effect: that is, it puts the characters

[ p a g e t i t l e ]

in the variable $sss. Nothing else.

Your str_replace will never do anything because there is no underscore in that string ("[pagetitle]").

 

Okay. Well, firstly I'm going to assume you use a templating class to parse the file (and hence fill [pagetitle] with data that DOES include underscores.)

Please post this templating script.

If you do NOT use a templating script, WHICH UNDERSCORE?

 

What you mean is your [pagetitle] is not a string??

- ads2help

 

If that is your "before" and "after", I'd go with the "before", as the "after" is just a waste of PHP. The code that you just gave is going to take the string "[pagetitle]" and replace the underscores with spaces, doing absolutely nothing in the process.

There must be something that I am missing, because there is no point in removing underscores from a string that you physically coded into a variable yourself, anyways.

I am really trying to figure out what is going on here. If you are thinking that '[pagetitle]' is going to do something magical and produce you some underscores, taking the single-quotes off of it would help. But that's not even the case.

Good luck with your code.