<?PHP ## list($DiaryContent, $DiaryLink) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT diaryContent, DiaryLink FROM mydb.diary WHERE date = 'YYYY-MM-DD'")); $DiaryContent = 'Yo, Yo! Wassup. This is my Diary, my name is {name} and this is a cool link to a website: {link}'; $DiaryReplace = '{name}*Bruce|{link}*<a href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a>|'; $DiaryReplace = explode('|', $DiaryReplace); foreach($DiaryReplace AS $Replace) { $Replace = explode('*', $Replace); $DiaryContent = str_replace($Replace[0], $Replace[1], $DiaryContent); } echo $DiaryContent; ?> There you go. Quick, clean, search and replace engine. Regards, Peter "Pod" Pistorius peterp@podbox.co.za -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php