I'm outputting some HTML from a database to a page, containing constructions like this:
<p>Department: *|accounting|*</p>
I would like to find and replace all text wrapped with | and | and use the word in between as a variable for my translate function.
I've found a partial answer. Could you guys help me out with the rest? Thanks.
This is somewhat what I'm looking for...
$html_from_database = "<p>Department: *|accounting|*</p>";
$updated_html = preg_replace("*|(.*?)|*", translate('accounting'),$html_from_database);
Is something like this possible? What about the regex? Is it not too resource intensive or to greedy? Please note that the only characters between | and | will be a-z A-Z -_ 0-9.
Thanks in advance.