I'm searching for a way to use named arguments for sprintf or printf. Example: or via vsprintf and an associative array. I have found some coding examples here http://php.net/manual/de/function.sprintf.php and here http://php.net/manual/de/function.vsprintf.php where people wrote their own solutions. But my question is, is there maybe an standard PHP solution out there to achieve this or is there another way, maybe

vsprintf or sprintf with named arguments, or simple template parsing in PHP

I’m searching for a way to use named arguments for sprintf or printf.

Example:

sprintf(
  'Last time logged in was %hours hours, 
   %minutes minutes, %seconds seconds ago'
  ,$hours,$minutes, $seconds
);

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sprintf(  'Last time logged in was %hours hours,    %minutes minutes, %seconds seconds ago'  ,$hours,$minutes, $seconds);​

or via vsprintf and an associative array.

I have found some coding examples here

function sprintfn ($format, array $args = array())

JavaScript
 
function sprintfn ($format, array $args = array())​

http://php.net/manual/de/function.sprintf.php

and here

function vnsprintf( $format, array $data)

JavaScript
 
function vnsprintf( $format, array $data)​

http://php.net/manual/de/function.vsprintf.php

where people wrote their own solutions.

But my question is, is there maybe an standard PHP solution out there to achieve this or is there another way, maybe with a simple PHP templating provided by PEAR, that I can achieve this by sticking to standard PHP?

Thanks for any help.

Answer

As far as I know printf/sprintf does not accept assoc arrays.

However it is possible to do printf('%1$d %1$d', 1);

Better than nothing 😉

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