I have a PHP file that renders an HTML file, inside this HTML file I have this piece of code
<div class="app">{: echo $this->content :}</div>
And I want to replace the opening {: and closing :} tags with the traditional <?php ?> tags to make it look something like this:
<div class="app"><?php echo $this->content ?></div>
$contents = file_get_contents ("file.php");
$contents = str_replace(array('{:', ':}'), array('<?php', '?>'), $contents);
file_put_contents("file.php", $contents);
You could do a simple string replace if you are doing this within PHP
str_replace(array('{:', ':}'), array('<?php', '?>'), $file_content)
Try this :
$string = '<div class="app">{: echo $this->content :}</div>';
$string = str_replace('{:','<?php',$string);
$string = str_replace(':}','?>',$string);
If you want to catch the content inside the you can use this :
$string = '<div class="app">{: echo $this->content :}</div>';
preg_match('/<div class="app">(.+)<\/div>/',$string,$preg_array);
$string = str_replace('{:','<?php',$preg_array[1]);
$string = str_replace(':}','?>',$string);
Output :
<?php echo $this->content ?>
:}/{:then you could use something likestr_replace(...).