Re: preg_replace question

Without seeing the code that creates the arrays, it's tough to see the problem. It looks like the first replacement is catching "Beagle Welpen" entirely since the closing </a> tag gets placed after "Welpen". Then the second replacement does just "Welpen". Also, you should have quotes around "link" when building the $replace[] entry since the array access is outside quotes. Finally, you don't need $k here at all. // create internal links function internal_links($str, $links, $limit) { foreach($links AS $link){ $pattern[] = "~\b($link[phrase])\b~i"; $replace[] = '<a href="'.$link['link'].'">\\1</a>'; } return preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$str, $limit); } David