How to replace two different characters with one character using the preg_replace () function?

Question

How to replace the characters @ and . to an email address with a symbol - using the preg_replace() function in php?

Answer 1

Since your search patterns are just strings, using string replacement using str_replace better than the other answer says.

Here's the answer of preg_replace :

 $str = preg_replace('/@|\./','-',$str); 

Answer 2

No need to use preg_replace .

Use str_replace :

 $output = str_replace(array('@', '.'), '-', $input);