Replace string in an array with PHP

Why not just use str_replace without a loop?

$array = array('foobar', 'foobaz');$out = str_replace('foo', 'hello', $array);

php arrays str-replace replace

$array = array_map(    function($str) {        return str_replace('foo', 'bar', $str);    },    $array);

But array_map is just a hidden loop. Why not use a real one?

foreach ($array as &$str) {    $str = str_replace('foo', 'bar', $str);}

That's much easier.

php arrays str-replace replace

This is a very good idea that I found and used successfully:

function str_replace_json($search, $replace, $subject) {    return json_decode(str_replace($search, $replace, json_encode($subject)), true);}

It is good also for multidimensional arrays.

If you change the "true" to "false" then it will return an object instead of an associative array.

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