Is there a PHP equivalent of ASP replace() method?

[lloydi]

That says it all in the subject line ...

in ASP

myNewString = replace(myOldString,"_"," ")

Would replace all instances of "_" found in myOldString with " ".

Can this also be done in PHP?

PS - I do have a PHP book, just not a very good one, and I am a total beginner with PHP (very stuck in my ASP/VBscript ways, but I want to change!)

[Helge]

I think str_replace() should do the trick

$text = 'This_is_a_test.';
$text = str_replace("_", " ", $text); 
// $text is now: This is a test. 

HTH

-Helge

[platinum]

ah, join the dark side!

PHP has functions for almost anything you can imagine.
no more body = replace(body, vbCrLf, "<br />"),
just a simple sweet $body = nl2br($body);

[lloydi]

Thanks - that seems to be working just fins. Now that I'm online and able to do more digging, I can see how much of a beginner's book I bought - hardly a thorough reference ...

[Gaheris]

You best friend is the PHP manual.
Another cool feature of php.net: If you know the functions name and want to get to it's manual page just go to http://php.net/my_function_name.
The power of mod_rewrite, eh?

[Daijoubu]

ah, join the dark side!

PHP has functions for almost anything you can imagine.
no more body = replace(body, vbCrLf, "<br />"),
just a simple sweet $body = nl2br($body);

nl2br isn't str_replace("\n", '<br />', $body)
It's str_replace("\n", "<br />\n", $body)

[platinum]

nl2br isn't str_replace("\n", '<br />', $body)
It's str_replace("\n", "<br />\n", $body)

close enough