how can I append an array value to a string?

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I'd like to append an array value to the middle of a string.

I tried making the name as new variable and append the variable. I looked up various ways to grab just one value out of array, but nothing satisfied my needs.

I have this array:

$fields = array(
    'name' => array(
        'rule' => '/.+/',
        'message' => $lang['ADMIN_STORE_NAME_VALIDATE'],
        'value' => '',
        'required' => TRUE
    ),

I want to append the store name to say, the end of this string

sprintf("A cool new store has been added  please login to administrators area to approve the request")

@GrumpyCrouton Kind of nonsense, either you do use sprintf() or you don't. I would suggest you do, so sprintf("A cool new store called %s has been added please login to administrators area to approve the request", $fields['name']['message']). — arkascha
– arkascha, Commented Jan 7, 2019 at 17:06
Whoever voted to close this question as "not clear": I think it's quite clear indeed. — Aleks G
– Aleks G, Commented Jan 7, 2019 at 17:31
@arkascha thank you for the reply, but im still getting "please enter your store name" in place fo where the store name should be . if i removed the [message] part, i get "A cool new store called Array has been added please login to administrators area to approve the request" — bsg testing
– bsg testing, Commented Jan 7, 2019 at 18:40
@bsgtesting Where is the name of the store stored? What variable? — GrumpyCrouton
– GrumpyCrouton, Commented Jan 7, 2019 at 18:41

lucid · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-07 17:08:52Z

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The . is a concatenation operator. Therefore, doing something like the following:

$sentence = "A cool new store called " . $fields['name']['message'] . " has been added please login to administrators area to approve the request";

Is going to give you the result you want.

For more info: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

answered Jan 7, 2019 at 17:08

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bsg testing Over a year ago

thank you for the reply, but im still getting "please enter your store name" in place fo where the store name should be . if i removed the [message] part, i get "A cool new store called Array has been added please login to administrators area to approve the request"

lucid Over a year ago

Can you tell me where you have your store name stored & how you get to it?

bsg testing Over a year ago

thank you for the reply. i have a file called en_US.php. inside iit is all these LANG lines. the LANG lines in my code above is the$lang['ADMIN_STORE_NAME_VALIDATE'] inside the en_US.php it is assigned the following sentence $lang['ADMIN_STORE_NAME_VALIDATE'] = "Please enter a Store Name";

lucid Over a year ago

So the actual name of the store is not stored in $lang['ADMIN_STORE_NAME_VALIDATE']?

Aleks G · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-07 17:26:01Z

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In PHP you can include variable values in the string using directly for simple variable or using ${ } notation for arrays/objects/etc. So something like this would work:

echo "A cool new store called {$fields['name']['message']} has been added please login to administrators area to approve the request";

As noted by @treyBake, for the variable expansion to work, you must use double quotes; variables are not expanded in single-quoted strings.

edited Jan 7, 2019 at 17:26

answered Jan 7, 2019 at 17:21

Aleks G

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treyBake Over a year ago

true^^ though I'd prefer to concat for readability purposes, sometimes you can miss seeing vars inside a string

treyBake Over a year ago

Awesome ^.^ removed comment :)

bsg testing Over a year ago

thank you for the reply, but im still getting "please enter your store name" in place fo where the store name should be . if i removed the [message] part, i get "A cool new store called Array has been added please login to administrators area to approve the request"

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