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Replace a word with another using php

By Shefeek Jinnah - For Technical Information ⋅ May 3, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Post a comment


Here is the code snippet in php to scan a text and replace the occurance of a particular word with another

Click here to see the code

<?php

// The text string
$text = "This is the text.";

// The word we want to replace with a new text
$oldWord = "the";

// The new word we want in place of the old one
$newWord = "a";

// Run through the text and replaces all occurrences of $oldText
$text = str_replace($oldWord , $newWord , $text);

// Display the new text
echo $text;

?>

Note : This function cant recognize some characters like ‘<' , '>‘ etc

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