Online PHP editor | refs for TDGbJ

<?php $original = 'some od or perhaps a #ph in this :rn:'; $abbreviation= array(); $abbreviation[0] = 'od'; $abbreviation[1] = 'rn'; $abbreviation[2] = 'ph'; $abbreviation[3] = 'real'; $translated= array(); $translated[0] ='odometer'; $translated[1] ='run'; $translated[2] ='pinhole'; $translated[3] ='fake'; function add_regex_finders($str){ return "/([\s:\#])" . $str . "([\s:])/i"; } $original_parsed = array_map('add_regex_finders',$abbreviation); echo preg_replace($original_parsed, array_map(function ($v) { return '$1' . $v . '$2'; }, $translated), $original);