Meta Symbol replacement in text: I need to take a piece of text and replace certain symbols in it

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by Brian Read - 23 hours ago (2016-03-23)

I need to take a piece of text and replace certain symbols in it

+1	I want to be able to process a piece of html and substitute meta symbols in the text by the contents of the corresponding field in a database, generating an html page which includes the contents of the current MySQL record. I need to do this for multiple records.

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• 1. by Manuel Lemos - 16 hours ago (2016-03-23) Reply

  Do you need a sort of template engine that replaces marks with data from a database?

• 2. by Brian Read - 7 hours ago (2016-03-24) in reply to comment 1 by Manuel Lemos Comment

  yes i guess so...

• 3. by Brian Read - 5 hours ago (2016-03-24) in reply to comment 2 by Brian Read Comment

  ok, I used "template engine" as a search term and found a number of options. Thanks for the help.

• 4. by Manuel Lemos - 5 hours ago (2016-03-24) in reply to comment 3 by Brian Read Comment

  Sure, no problem. There are many template engine classes but not many that integrate database results directly. Most take arrays and iterate over sections.

  If you want to show a data grid for displaying or editing database records, there are more adequate packages for that purpose.

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