README

This package will help you when str_replace gets a little bit messy.

Introduction

When you see something like this:

$remove_characters = ['<p>', '</p>', '&#39;', '&#039;', '<h2>', '</h2>', '<strong>', '</strong>', '&nbsp;', '&#63;','@name', '&rsquot;', '&quot;', '@firstname'];
$replace_with = ['', '', "'", "'", '', '', '', '', '', '?', $user->name, "'", '"', $user->first_name];

$message = str_replace($remove_characters, $replace_with, $message);

A cleaner way:

use Jkque\StringReplace\StringReplace;

$message = StringReplace::content($string)
    ->when($user, function ($string) use($user) {
        return $string->with(new UserStringReplace($user));
    })
    ->variables([
        ''' => "'",
        '?' => '?'
    ])
    ->replace();

use Jkque\StringReplace\StringReplace;

use App\User;

class UserStringReplace extends StringReplace
{
    public function __construct(User $user)
    {
        $this->variables([
            '@name' => $user->name,
        ]);
    }
}

Usage

use Jkque\StringReplace\StringReplace;

$string = 'We are awesome <p>in php</p> replacethis';

$string = StringReplace::content($string)
    ->variables([
        'replacethis' => 'coding',
    ])
    ->replace(); // the ending method to be called

You can use conditional closures when and unless

$string->when($somecondtion, function ($string) {
 // do something;
})

By default html tags is being strip but you can turn it off by passing a false value in stripTags(false) method.

Pipeline

To breakdown complex process into individual tasks you can create a class that extends Jkque\StringReplace\StringReplace

use Jkque\StringReplace\StringReplace;

class RemoveBadWords extends StringReplace
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->variables([
            'badword' => '*',
        ]);
    }
}

A helper command to create this class php artisan string-replace:pipe {name} {model? : With model}. You can change the namespace of your model in the config file the default is 'App\'.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require jkque/laravel-string-replace

publish config files

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jkque\StringReplace\StringReplaceServiceProvider"

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email johnkevin.cadungog@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• John Kevin Cadungog
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.