Replace multiple placeholders with PHP?

Question

I have a function that sends out site emails (using phpmailer), what I want to do is basically for php to replace all the placheholders in the email.tpl file with content th

Answer 1

Simple, see strtr­Docs:

$vars = array(
    "[{USERNAME}]" => $username,
    "[{EMAIL}]" => $email,
);

$message = strtr($message, $vars);

Add as many (or as less) replacement-pairs as you like. But I suggest, you process the template before you call the phpmailer function, so things are kept apart: templating and mail sending:

class MessageTemplateFile
{
    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $file;
    /**
     * @var string[] varname => string value
     */
    private $vars;

    public function __construct($file, array $vars = array())
    {
        $this->file = (string)$file;
        $this->setVars($vars);
    }

    public function setVars(array $vars)
    {
        $this->vars = $vars;
    }

    public function getTemplateText()
    {
        return file_get_contents($this->file);
    }

    public function __toString()
    {
        return strtr($this->getTemplateText(), $this->getReplacementPairs());
    }

    private function getReplacementPairs()
    {
        $pairs = array();
        foreach ($this->vars as $name => $value)
        {
            $key = sprintf('[{%s}]', strtoupper($name));
            $pairs[$key] = (string)$value;
        }
        return $pairs;
    }
}

Usage can be greatly simplified then, and you can pass the whole template to any function that needs string input.

$vars = compact('username', 'message');
$message = new MessageTemplateFile('email.tpl', $vars);