Re: Help on pregreplace

At 10:51 AM -0400 8/18/09, Al wrote:

Merlin Morgenstern wrote:

Hi there, I am highlighting keywords with the help of pregreplace. This works great with one limitation. If the word that has to be replaced contains a slash, preg throws an error. So far I could not find a fix. Can someone help? Here is the code: $pattern = "/\b($words)\b/is"; $replace = '<span style="background:#FF0000;color:#FCCCCC;">\\1</span>'; return preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$str); Thank you in advance, Merlin

best insurance http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php

In addition, you might consider moving your style attributes to a style sheet and then using a class name like so: $replace = '<span class="highlight">\\1</span>'; That way you can change highlighting as you want without altering your code. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com