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Hi, I'm kind of new to PHP and very new to Regular Expressions and I was wondering if someone could help run through this code snippet from a callback function in a Joomla plugin called Affliates Feed. So far I have this is passed a pointer to variable item (I understand this is effectively the same as passing the variable but a lot less CPU intensive. Creates an array with keys and values Now the for loop I am stuck with, I understand the interation through the array. But what is preg_replace returning and why pass it back that way hasn't it already done its job? Can any one help? And please feel free to be as basic as possible :help: Thanks, Adam function gardening(&$item) { #renaming categories, not the most efficient use for example strtolower first, and use only lowercase in the rename array $rename=array( ' Gardening?' => '', 'Climber Plants' => 'Climbing Plants', 'Seeds.*Bulbs' => 'Seeds Bulbs', 'Plant protection' => 'Horticultural goods', 'Garden structures' => 'Garden buildings',); foreach ( $rename as $k => $v ) { list($item['menu_1'],$item['menu_2'])=preg_replace("#$k#",$v,array($item['menu_1'],$item['menu_2'])); } $item['menu_1']=ucfirst(strtolower($item['menu_1'])); $item['menu_2']=ucfirst(strtolower($item['menu_2'])); $item['menu_3']=ucfirst(strtolower($item['menu_3'])); $item['menu_4']=ucfirst(strtolower($item['menu_4'])); }