[SOLVED] string replace help

[emehrkay]

say i have an array

 

$var = array('name' => 'mark', 'city' => 'some city'); ...etc

 

and i have a block of text

 

"Hi <[name]>, do you live in <[city]>?"

 

how should i efficiently replace the <[]> vars with their matching key vals in my array?

 

thanks

[suzzane2020]

hi,

If i got ur question rite , you cud use the foreach array function

[emehrkay]

Thanks suzzanne, I actually figured it out.

 

while creating my $val array, i create a replace_val array and just do str_replace

 

<?php
foreach($arr as $key => $val){
		if($key == 'email_id'){
			$this->_email_id = $val;
		}else{
			$this->_vars[$key] = $val;
			$this->_replace_vars[] = '<['. $key .']>';
		}
	}

private function buildEmail(){
	$email = emailSQL::getEmailText($this->_email_id);
	return str_replace($this->_replace_vars, $this->_vars, $email);
}
?>

 

i just hope that it works