Str_replace for multiple items

php string str-replace
sameold picture sameold · Sep 30, 2011 · Viewed 212.1k times · Source

I remember doing this before, but can't find the code. I use str_replace to replace one character like this: str_replace(':', ' ', $string); but I want to replace all the following characters \/:*?"<>|, without doing a str_replace for each.

Answer

Dogbert picture Dogbert · Sep 30, 2011

Like this:

str_replace(array(':', '\\', '/', '*'), ' ', $string);

Or, in modern PHP (anything from 5.4 onwards), the slighty less wordy:

str_replace([':', '\\', '/', '*'], ' ', $string);

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