"The Numerator" <alvin4jesus@gmail.comwrote in message
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Quote:
>I have this page (print.php). In that file, I want to to include a text
file from "songs/breathe.txt", and replace all instances of "<b" with
"<span" and "</b>" with "</span>". I know how I should use str_replace
and I tried to do this:
>
<?php
>
$replace_a=str_replace("<span","<b",include("text/breathe.txt"));
$replace_b=str_replace("</span>",</b>",$replace_a);
>
?>
>
but it doesn't work.
>
I've never tried that before, but I'm sure it's never going to do it.
What you should do is open the file and read it in
$file='[PATH TO FILE]';
$filethis=fopen($file,'rb') or die("Can't open TXT file '[FILENAME]'");
Then read each line of the file, doing your replace as you go.
Phil
