Name PHP specifiers in printf() strings

Question

Is there a way in PHP to name my specifiers like in Python?

I want this in PHP:

$foo = array(\'name\' => 24);
printf(\"%(name)d\", $foo);

Answer 1

You can do it with sprintf by numbering the parameters, like so:

echo sprintf('hello, %2$s. What is your %1$s', 'age', 'Jesse');

Outputs the following string:

hello, Jesse. What is your age