John Davidson

Message:

I have a string that contains lines like the following

<category id blabla>2</category>

...

<name>bloblo</name>

<category id blabla>35</category>

and an array like this

[2] => Shoes

[35] => T-Shirts

I want to scan every line that contains the word "category", putting the number between tags in a variable, so i can map it with the array and then replace the number with the name of the category.

I am trying to find an effective way to do this, as the string contains almost 12k lines.
Tried with preg_split in foreach, but i am afraid the script crashes and i get no output (will try again tomorrow).
Puting the XML code in simplexml_load_string neither seems to work (it works with smaller strings, but not with this one).

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My Answer:

Tove
Jani
Reminder
Don't forget me this weekend!

I need to replace the text inside the tags with a new text, but the replacement text is complicated and needs to be generated dynamically for each line.
For example, I need to replace "Don't forget me this weekend!" with "Reminder for Tove: Don't forget to buy milk and eggs."
How can I achieve this in PHP?