String and variables

[lovelinuxlove]

Hello , I got a .txt file , and inside the .txt file I got lot's of variables ... and I am reading that .txt file into a PHP program , because I would like to send it as a e-mail ... my problem is that my variables are sent as text, and not variables , someting like "Welcome on board $username" and not "Welcome on board John46"
How I can process a string ?
I know that there is a simple function for this , I even used it in the past but I forgot it , and now is so hard for me to find it again ....

 

[Peter]

dont know of any particular function that does that but it sounds like you need a template system such as the pear HTML_Template_IT located at http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_IT

If you use 1 like this then your text file would need to be like

Welcome on board {name}

the template system would replace {name} with the persons name

 

[deadserious]

How are the variables formatted in your text file?

Are they "$var = value" or are they just a bunch of names that you need to get into variables or something else?