John Nichel wrote:
Rory Browne wrote:
On 6/8/05, David Duong <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
i'm looking for a function that can highlight certain search terms in a
string. anyone have something already made that i can plugin to my
exisiting code?
I found a couple but they do not work very well.. some break html code
if the string contains the keywords in the html.
thanks.
You can use str_replace to "highlight" the search terms.
For example, you could use the following code for each search term (this
function also accepts arrays, see http://php.net/str_replace):
str_replace ($search_term, "<b>$search_term</b>", $body_text);
Bad idea. Very bad idea.
for example ( using bold to highlight ):
<?pseudo_code
$html = "<html><body>I want to hightlight the word body in this text.
</body></html>";
$search = "body";
$output = str_replace($search, "<b>$search</b>", $html);
// $output == "<html><<b>body</b>>I want to hightlight the word
<b>body</b> in this text. </<b>body</b>></html>";
// see what I mean?
?>
Good catch Rory. A regex replace would work better here.
$search = "body";
$find = "/\b" . $search . "\b/";
if I were Richard Lynch I would mention that you probably want to backslash
your backslashes:
$find = "/\\b" . $search . "\\b/";
but then again if I were Richard Lynch I would probably assume that John Nichel
knows that kind of thing, therefore I would not bother mentioning it, or
would I?
what would Richard Lynch say?
(no offence Richard!, Im just being playful :-)
(btw Richard is right about the backslashing!)
preg_replace ( $find, "<b>" . $search . "</b>", $html );
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