Use a Regex to convert Smarty syntax to PHP syntax [duplicate]

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PHP templating using custom code replacing using regex

Hi,

I would like to convert

<a href="{$game.url}">{$game.info.cleanname}</a>

to

<a href="$game['url']">$game['info']['cleanname']</a>

using preg_replace

@mike B yes and it does relate to the question. damn you guys are quick to downvote. — Vish
– Vish, Commented Mar 14, 2011 at 21:30

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:19:53Z

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There was a question asking for exactly the same yesterday:
PHP templating using custom code replacing using regex

Simply add a second preg_replace version (or more) to match the other cases:

preg_replace('/\{\$(\w+)\.(\w+)\}/', '\\$$1[\'$2\']', $src);

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answered Mar 14, 2011 at 16:40

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would it replace all the occurences of the code above

and does it work for nested arrays