PHP | str_replace() Function

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP str_replace() Function.

The PHP str_replace() function is used to replace the string with another string.

This function follows some specified rules while working, these rules are given below:

• If the string to be searched is an array, this function returns an array.

• If the string to be searched is an array, then find and replace is performed with every array element.

• If both find and replace are arrays, and replace has fewer elements than find, then an empty string will be used as replace.

• If find is an array and replace a string, then the replace string is going to be used for every find value.

This built-in function is the case-sensitive version of str_ireplace() function.

syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

mixed str_replace ( mixed $search , mixed $replace , mixed $subject [, int &$count ] )

READ: PHP | str_repeat() Function

Parameter Details

Sr.No	Parameters & Description
1	find It specifies the string to find
2	replace It specifies the replace the value in find
3	string It specifies the string to be searched
4	count It used to count the number of replaced variable

Return Value

This function returns the string or array with replaced value.

Example

Try out the example below -

<?php
   echo str_replace("html","coders","php coding");
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

php coding

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we will be studying about the PHP str_rot13() Function.

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