How do i remove a specific word from a string in php?

I'm extracting twitter user's profile image through JSON. For this my code is:

$x->profile_image_url

that returns the url of the profile image. The format of the url may be "..xyz_normal.jpg" or "..xyz_normal.png" or "..xyz_normal.jpeg" or "..xyz_normal.gif" etc.

Now I want to delete the "_normal" part from every url that I receive. How can I achieve this in php? I'm tired of trying it. Please help.

asked Aug 18, 2012 at 9:02

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Php str_replace.

str_replace('_normal', '', $var)

What this does is to replace '_normal' with '' (nothing) in the variable $var. Or take a look at preg_replace if you need the power of regular expressions.

answered Aug 18, 2012 at 9:04

MatsemannMatsemann

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The str_ireplace() function does the same job but ignoring the case

like the following

output : Hello Peter!

for more example you can see

answered Feb 2, 2020 at 8:07

Irshad BabarIrshad Babar

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The str_replace() function replaces some characters with some other characters in a string.

try something like this:

$x->str_replace("_normal","",$x)

answered Aug 18, 2012 at 9:11

Samy S.RathoreSamy S.Rathore

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$s = 'Posted On jan 3rd By Some Dude';


echo strstr($s, 'By', true);

This is to remove particular string from a string.

The result will be like this

 'Posted On jan 3rd'

answered Jan 3, 2018 at 7:03

chrischris

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Multi replace

$a = array('one','two','three');
$var = "one_1 two_2 three_3";
str_replace($a, '',$var);

answered Dec 25, 2019 at 3:09

string erase(subscript, count)
    {
     string place="New York";
     place erase(0,2)
  }

answered Sep 2, 2014 at 7:47

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The default PHP function str_replace(); is a useful tool if we want to remove certain characters, symbols or words from a string. Below I show you how to work with it.

How do I remove specific characters from a string?

The following wrapper function shows how we can use PHP to remove specific characters from a value or text. We simply pass the text or value to the function. This is done as follows: clear_string_from_characters("A [text] with $ characters");

• Start value: A [text] with $ characters.
• End value: A text with characters.

In the above function we can see the array(); contains characters defined that should not be included in the output. With the variable $replace = ''; We have decided that the previously defined characters are replaced by an empty value and will be completely removed. Therefore, the characters “[“, “]” and “$” are removed from the start value.

How do I remove words from a string?

The next example shows how to replace the number “6” with an empty value and the word “old” with “young”.

• Start value: I’m 68 years old.
• End value: I’m 8 years young.

Of course, if you do not need a wrapper function, you can just use the default PHP function str_replace(); use, as the following example shows:

In the above example code by using PHP we have replaced the word “Hello” by “Howdy”.

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