note 51863 added to function.preg-replace

If you want to highlight certain words with a different background color in your HTML output, then this function will do the job. This is very useful when displaying search results etc.. <?PHP // Function highlights $words in $str with the specified $color function highlight_words($str, $words, $color = '#FFFF00') { if(is_array($words)) { foreach($words as $k => $word) { $pattern[$k] = "/\b($word)\b/is"; $replace[$k] = '<font style="background-color:'.$color.';">\\1</font>'; } } else { $pattern = "/\b($words)\b/is"; $replace = '<font style="background-color:'.$color.';">\\1</font>'; } return preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$str); } ?> Hokus ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51863 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51863&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51863&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51863&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51863&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51863&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51863&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php