Here's a function which accepts an array of variables, and a template RTF document. Returns the populated document: "\\\\", '{' => "\{", '}' => "\}"); $document = file_get_contents($doc_file); if(!$document) { return false; } foreach($vars as $key=>$value) { $search = "%%".strtoupper($key)."%%"; foreach($replacements as $orig => $replace) { $value = str_replace($orig, $replace, $value); } $document = str_replace($search, $value, $document); } return $document; } ?>]]>