Re: Battling with highlighting search criteria
| From: | Erwin | Date: | Mon, 04 Nov 2002 08:42:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Battling with highlighting search criteria | ||
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> I have a search string ($search) and a result ($result). I need to
> highlight every occurance of $search in $result.
>
> I know that it means that I need to change (for example)
>
> $result = "This is a test, isn't it?"
> $search = "is"
>
> Into
>
> $result = "th<span class="highlight">is</span> <span
> class="highlight">is</span> a test, <span
> class="highlight">is</span>'nt it"
>
> Now I can easily see how to change the FIRST occurrence of the word,
> but how can I change every occurance?
How about str_replace?
$result = "This is a test, isn't it?";
$search = "is";
$replacement = '<span class="highlight">' . $search .
'</span>';
$result = str_replace( $search, $replacement, $result );
HTH
Erwin