Replace multiple words with Str_Replace

Question

I want to replace multiple synonyms with one specific word.

Answer 1

Something like

$a = array( 'truck', 'vehicle', 'seddan', 'coupe' ); 

$str = 'Honda is a truck. Toyota is a vehicle. Nissan is a sedan. Scion is a coupe.'; 

echo str_replace($a,'car',$str); 

Should work.

http://codepad.org/1LhtcOSR

Edit:

Something like this should yield expected results: http://pastebin.com/xGzYiCk3

$text = '{test|test2|test3} some other stuff {some1|some2|some3}';

Output:

test3 some other stuff some1
test2 some other stuff some2
test3 some other stuff some3
test3 some other stuff some1