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I have some text containing variable data.

My age is: <span class="var" id="age">54</span> and my name is <span class="var" id="name">Matt</span>

If no url paramater is set then the page uses 54 which is correct, however if I set age in the url such as ?age=20 then I would like the age to be set to 20.

The text is from the database and is set to a variable called $content.

Not a duplicate. The text comes from the database and only needs to be replaced is a url param is set

Buy Naural
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  • Have a look at http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php -- it should square you away. – Lando Jun 07 '17 at 21:07
  • Can I not set the id using dom – Buy Naural Jun 07 '17 at 21:11
  • this question may can help you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12126420/isset-php-isset-getsomething-getsomething – rheeantz Jun 07 '17 at 21:13
  • Do you want to change the value in the database, or just change what is displayed on a per page view basis? If the latter, is a javascript solution acceptable (because it would be dead simple) – Steve Jun 07 '17 at 21:33
  • Yes, Steve just on the page. However, I can have a few variable fields in an article such as name age, town etc. These all need to be replaces if exist as a url param – Buy Naural Jun 07 '17 at 21:48

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Since you have a "condition" for the age to be displayed, therefore you will have to use PHP if else to check the date. Below is the code that you can use along with the explanation.

Assuming that the below is the string what you get from your db field.

$fetched_string = '<p> My Smith from <span class="var" id="town">Manchester, aged, <span >class="var" id="age">54</span>';

Now you have to extract the age, which is always in between id="age"> and </span>

The best way to do this is by creating a PHP function for this.

function str_between($string, $searchStart, $searchEnd, $offset = 0) {
        $startPosition = strpos($string, $searchStart, $offset);
        if ($startPosition !== false) {
            $searchStartLength = strlen($searchStart);
            $endPosition = strpos($string, $searchEnd, $startPosition + 1);
            if ($endPosition !== false) {
                return substr($string, $startPosition + $searchStartLength, $endPosition - $searchStartLength);
            }
            return substr($string, $startPosition + $searchStartLength);
        }
        return $string;
    }

Now you simply have to pass the string values on the left (which will be the searchStart) and the right (searchEnd) of the fetched age. Below is the code to do this.

$fetched_age = str_between($fetched_string, 'id="age">', '</span>');

Based on this, I have revised the final code that you can use as is.

//To get the data from a URL, $_GET method is used. First you will check if the "age" has been set in the URL or not. This is done by:

function str_between($string, $searchStart, $searchEnd, $offset = 0) {
    $startPosition = strpos($string, $searchStart, $offset);

    if ($startPosition !== false) {
        $searchStartLength = strlen($searchStart);
        $endPosition = strpos($string, $searchEnd, $startPosition + 1);

        if ($endPosition !== false) {
            return substr($string, $startPosition + $searchStartLength, $endPosition - $searchStartLength);
        }

        return substr($string, $startPosition + $searchStartLength);
    }

    return $string;
}

//Fetched String for db
$fetched_string = $row['full_string'];

//This will give you the age
$fetched_age = str_between($fetched_string, 'id="age">', '</span>');

if (isset($_GET['age'])) {
    //If age is set in the URL, assign it to the PHP Variable
    $age_display = $_GET['age'];
}
else {
    //If age is not set, then assign the age fetched from the db.
    $age_display = $fetched_age;
}

Is this what you are looking for?

Mohammed Akhtar Zuberi
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