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Find and replace words in a text string using str_replace

Description

This will run through a section of text and change all occurrences of a word into something else using the PHP str_replace function.

The code

<?php



// The text string

$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";



// The word we want to replace

$oldWord = "brown";



// The new word we want in place of the old one

$newWord = "blue";



// Run through the text and replaces all occurrences of $oldText

$text = str_replace($oldWord , $newWord , $text);



// Display the new text

echo $text;



?>

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