[FX.php List] [OFF] Replace parts of a string w/ non-string elements?

[Joel Shapiro]

hmm... I could create an auto-enter-calc or calc field in FMP.   
That'd probably be easiest.  But is there a way to do this just in PHP?

-Joel


On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've got a field in which FileMaker users can enter various field  
> names like merge fields, such as:
> "Hello <<nameFirst>> ..."
>
> In the PHP, I'd like to be able to automatically replace all  
> instances of "<<fieldName>>" from within that field with "  
> $queryData['fieldName']  ", such as:
> "Hello ' .  $queryData['fieldName'] . ' ..."
> (or even "Hello $queryData['fieldName'] ..." with just double-quotes)
>
> Is there any PHP function that can do this?
>
> The problem seems to be stepping out of and back into a string.   
> str_replace() just makes the "$queryData" into part of the string,  
> when I really want to step *out of* the string.
>
> For the last project there weren't many possible <<mergeFields>>,  
> so I worked around this by hard-coding two arrays for use within a  
> str_replace() function, as such:
>
> $from = array(
> 	'&lt;&lt;fieldName1&gt;&gt;',
> 	'&lt;&lt;fieldName2&gt;&gt;'
> 	);
>
> $to = array(
> 	$queryData['fieldName1'],
> 	$queryData['fieldName2']
> 	);
>
> But still, I'm curious.  Is there some other way to do this?
>
> TIA,
> -Joel
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