On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 04:20:09 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Nelson (et al), > > I've enjoyed reading this thread and apologize for dredging it up. > It's interesting to see your progression of thought and the templating > discussion is indeed a worthy one. > > However, I wanted to answer this objection from your initial message: > > >The reason I ask is because I am going to want to do three substitutions, > >and I'd rather not do three str_replace calls if I don't have to. > > You *don't* have to; str_replace() is perfectly capable of handling > arrays: > > ===== > $replace = array("USER","SITENAME","SOME_CONSTANT"); > $replacements = array($user,$site_name,$foo); > > $replaced = str_replace($replace,$replacements,file_get_contents("/somefile.txt")); > ===== > > This, of course, doesn't negate a good templating system* ... but it's > handy to know and you'll probably use it sooner or later. > > Kevin Kinsey > > P.S. *assuming that's not an oxymoron! Kevin, No apologies necessary, at least not to me. I always appreciate help and I probably wouldn't have figured out your way on my own, at least not in relation to what I am trying to do. And you've just proved once again that there is almost always more than one way to accomplish a goal. I like this solution as much as what I ended up with and will keep it handy. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php