[SOLVED] str_replace not doing what I feel it should

[galvin]

I have the following code and I'm trying to replace "class=''" with "class='not'" and the code below, which I feel like should work is not.  Anyone have any idea why it's not replacing?  Does str_replace NOT work with Select menus or something?....

 

$string ="<option class='' value='1'>Philadelphia Eagles</option>";
echo $string;
$cancelteams = str_replace("class=''", "class='not'", $string);

[DarkWater]

Does str_replace NOT work with Select menus or something?....

 

I hope you realize how ridiculous that sounds, no offense.  Anyway, you see what you're echoing the string before you str_replace() it?  Hmm...

[DeanWhitehouse]

<?php
$string ="<option class='' value='1'>Philadelphia Eagles</option>";
echo str_replace("class=''", "class='not'", $string);
?>

[galvin]

Thanks Blade.  Sorry DarkWater, I am very new to PHP so I don't know what's a ridiculous statement and whats not. 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

To a programming language, $string and $cancelteams are just variables that contain some data. Php does not know or care what that data is (in fact programming is easy, it is just creating, manipulating, and moving data around.) The contents of the variable only becomes a select menu when it has been output to a browser.

 

The code:

$cancelteams = str_replace("class=''", "class='not'", $string);

Just takes what is in $string and replaces what you told it to and assigns the results to $cancelteams.