php - convert single quoted string to double quoted

Question

Been searching here and google for over an hour, can\'t seem to find the answer to this.

I have a string returned from a database query which contains variables, how

Answer 1

If you know the names of the variables you want to replace you can do this...

$myname = 'david';
$occupation = 'Beginner';
$result = 'Hello my name is $myname and I my occupation is $occupation';

$result = str_replace( 
              array('$myname', '$occupation'),  
              array($myname, $occupation),
              $result );

Which will be quicker than Nathan's stringExpand function, but if you don't know the variable names, then do use Nathan's method.

The problem I was trying to solve when I found this question was to do with linebreaks in a csv feed and was solved something like this:

// string from drupals csv feed tamper settings
$string = '22 Acacia Avenue\n Irlam\n Manchester'; 
$string = str_replace('\n', "\n", $string);
print nl2br($string); // demonstrates that the \n's are now linebreak characters