Title: replacing spaces within a string
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# replacing spaces within a string

 *  [elhashbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elhashbrown/)
 * (@elhashbrown)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/)
 * I have the following within a single post template to bring in an image based
   on the value of a custom field (named Model). It works fine apart from the spaces
   within the image name that I would like replacing with underscores. I have been
   playing around with str_replace but can’t seem to get it to work.
 * `<img src="../../../images/buyers-guide/<?php $model = str_replace(" ","_","Model");
   echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $model, true); ?>.jpg" />`
 * I am a bit of a novice with PHP so please be nice!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/#post-1924009)
 * Try:
 *     ```
       <?php $model = str_replace(' ', '_',  get_post_meta($post->ID, $model, true) ); ?>
       <img src="<?php echo get_stylesheet_uri();?>/images/buyers-guide/<?php echo $model;?>.jpg" />
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [elhashbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elhashbrown/)
 * (@elhashbrown)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/#post-1924149)
 * Thanks but this returned an image name of Array.jpg
 * You missed the need for `$model="Model";` somewhere in there as Model is the 
   original name of the custom field.
 * I tried the following but it just brought back the spaces:
 *     ```
       <?php $modela="Model"; $model = str_replace(' ', '_',  get_post_meta($post->ID, $modela, true) ); ?>
       <img src="../../../images/buyers-guide/<?php echo $model;?>.jpg" />
       ```
   
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/#post-1924185)
 * try:
 *     ```
       <img src="../../../images/buyers-guide/<?php $model = "Model"; echo str_replace(" ","_",get_post_meta($post->ID, $model, true)); ?>.jpg" />
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [elhashbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elhashbrown/)
 * (@elhashbrown)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/#post-1924199)
 * No, again the result came through but the spaces are still there. This is within
   a Thematic child theme if that makes any difference…
 *  Thread Starter [elhashbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elhashbrown/)
 * (@elhashbrown)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/#post-1924304)
 * I still haven’t managed to work this out but I found a work around. The code 
   was working but something in WordPress wouldn’t allow spaces to be made to underscores
   in the url. What I did was to put underscores in the custom field and then using
   the original code turning them to space where needed. Thanks to those who helped.

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 * Last reply from: [elhashbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elhashbrown/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacing-spaces-within-a-string/#post-1924304)
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