[windwind]

I need to dynamically replace certain values using regular expressions.

It's for a template engine that looks for <: and :> brackets with text between them.

The problem is it'll reconize any of the brackets (<:title:>, <:main:> etc) but I need it to dynamically insert the replcaement with the correct value from an array.

Here is the array

PHP Code:

$TemplateTags = array(

            'title' => "$Title",

            'menu' => "menu",

    ); 

It has the title and menu.

Here is the regex

PHP Code:

$ParseTitle = preg_replace("/<:.*?:>/is", "$TemplateTags[title]", $Page); 

That works, but, it'll replace every set of tags with the title value, I need to take the value the regex finds, and place that value in the replacement array.

This was suggested to me at devshed, but it causes an error.

PHP Code:

$ParseTitle = preg_replace("/<:.*?:>/is", "$TemplateTags[$$1]", $Page); 

Anyone know how to carry over the values?

[nd2]

$ParseTitle = preg_replace("/<.*?):>/is", $TemplateTags["$1"], $Page);

try that.

[windwind]

Produces an error also, unfortunately.

[0zone]

This will do the trick, note that the template variables can't have '>' or ':' in them.

Code:

<?php

	$tags = array(
		'title' => 'something',
		'menu' => 'this is the menu',
	);
	
	$template = '<:title:> and \'<:menu:>\'';
	
	echo preg_replace('/<:([^:>]*):>/ie', '$tags[\'\1\']', $template); 

?>

[windwind]

It works perfectly,

now all I need to do is include the template and I'm gold.

Thanks.

[0zone]

No problem