PHP Concatenate variable inside statement

Question

Ok I've been up all weekend and apparently my brain has imploded - I just can't conquer something that should be easy I think:

Using PHP. I have a variable:

$pageid = 9999;

and I have a template page full of hundreds of statements, like:

<?php $simplex->menu( 200029999, 200009999,1); ?>

(The 9999 is at the end of each number in every case)

In all of these statements, I need to replace the 9999 with the variable $pageid so that this number is no longer hardcoded (figuring to bulk replace using notepad++).

But for some reason I can't come up with a working syntax and my attempts to find an example here are failing too. Any hints appreciated!!

UPDATE for clarification:

In the end I want the statement to have $pageid coded into it, i.e.

<?php $simplex->menu( 20002'.$pageid.', 20000'.$pageid.',1); ?>

Obviously my above example is complete FUBAR but just trying to illustrate the end result I'm trying to achieve... then whatever value is assigned to $pageid will be applied to the statement itself.

Kosta · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 00:03:16Z

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So it seems to me that you want to refactor your code. This might seem hard to do with search/replace but your line could look something like this:

<?php $simplex->menu( intval('20002'.$pageid), intval('20000'.$pageid), 1); ?>

This way you can later change the value of $pageid and everything will work.

To replace this in notepadd++ use regex: find (\d+)9999, replace with intval('\1'.$pageid), and check Regular expression option. Here's the screenshot

edited Dec 10, 2012 at 0:03

answered Dec 9, 2012 at 23:55

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Steve Alioto Over a year ago

Kosta, THIS WORKS - AWESOME! I ran it on one page to verify, then on all 34 pages in the project... replacing a total 4,412 occurrences - and flipping through the pages they all appear to function perfectly!!! of course I will comb through to verify no anomalies, but no way I would have figured this out, thanks so much ;-)

Itay Moav -Malimovka · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-09 23:11:14Z

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This assumes there are no other occurances of 9999

$new_var = str_replace('9999',$pageid,$yourvar_with_the_9999);

answered Dec 9, 2012 at 23:11

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Steve Alioto Over a year ago

Hi, thanks - my question may not have been clear - or I am just not approaching this correctly - I need to actually insert the variable code (i.e. 'something'.$pageid.'something') into the statement itself... so that when the variable $pageid pulls it's value from mysql, that value will be injected throughout the page where the 9999 is currently... hope that makes more sense?

Imanuel · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 04:42:34Z

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You can do this with Notepad++ Regex driven replace engine (If I got the question right):

Replace (\d+)9999 *, with \1'.$pageid.',

Edit: The asterisk on the beginning was nonsense.

edited Dec 10, 2012 at 4:42

answered Dec 9, 2012 at 23:49

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Steve Alioto Over a year ago

Hi, appreciate the response... yes, that is (conceptually) the method I plan to use, although your suggestion is better constructed... but my problem has been that in every case the resulting statements fail - in otherwords I can't seem to insert the .$pageid. into those statements in a way that in which the statements actually function...

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