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Jun 3

9:10 am

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Why, PHP, Why?

In this particular PHP site I’m working on, some past developer really liked to use bare strings for array indices. Here’s what I used to fix (most of) the unquoted strings:

sed -i -e "s/\$\(\w\+\)\[\([a-z]\w\+\)\]/$\1['\2']/gi" *.php

One downside of this one-liner is that real PHP constants are incorrectly quoted when used as array indices. Another is that multi-dimensional array indexing isn’t fixed correctly past the first dimension. My site wasn’t affected by either case, but YMMV.

Here’s to quick 90% solutions!