string parsing in between curly bracket

[eluser]Nick_MyShuitings[/eluser]
I'm not sure if your question is clear enough to help. Is that in a view,controller etc? Are you using a templating engine?

This php function might be what you're looking for: http://php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php

Code:

<?php
$format = 'The %2$s contains %1$d monkeys.
           Thats a nice %2$s full of %1$d monkeys.';
printf($format, $num, $location);
?>