Need Help! Trying to replace the word |LEFT| with Array("1","2","3");

[Z33M@N]

Hi guys

 

I'm struggling a bit, I need to replace a word that occurs multiple times in text with an array("up","down","forward","backwards") of words.

 

$find = "left";
$replace = array("up","down","forward","backwards");
$text = "left left left left";

echo str_replace($find,$replace,$text);

 

The Output is: array array array array

 

Did try this with a foreach statement as well, but no luck. Is there a better way of doing this? 

 

Thanks

[chintansshah]

instead of echo str_replace($find,$replace,$text);

try below

$new_arr = str_replace($find,$replace,$text);

print_r($new_arr);

[Z33M@N]

instead of echo str_replace($find,$replace,$text);

try below

$new_arr = str_replace($find,$replace,$text);

print_r($new_arr);

 

Hi thanks,

 

I tried it but still outputs: array array array array

 

The result I'm looking for is: up down forward backwards

 

How can I achieve that?

[Pikachu2000]

You need to loop through the array to do the replacement.

[taquitosensei]

I'm not sure this will work, using str_replace to put an array in a string.

 

unless you want the results to be

"up down forwards backwards up down forwards backwards up down forwards backwards" etc..

 

then you would probably do

str_replace($find,implode(" ",$array),$text);