David, No html involved. Just db results.
I've found that eregi_replace() does the job adequately, if not perfectly. Us typesetters are hard to please when it comes to string handling. Cheers George > -----Original Message----- > From: David Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 January 2006 2:54 pm > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] problem encountered with stristr-based function > > > George, > > George Pitcher wrote: > > For info, I am trying to highlight search terms in results. > > If you're searching and replacing within HTML, you ought to be aware of > issues if someone's search term happens to be an HTML tag or attribute. > For example, Alice might search for "href" and get the following: > > <a <b>href</b>="URL">Text</a> > > back, which is clearly fubar, which highlights the necessity for some > handy regex skills. Following a quick google, I found this page: > > http://aidanlister.com/repos/?file=function.str_highlight.php > > David > -- > David Grant > http://www.grant.org.uk/ > > http://pear.php.net/package/File_Ogg 0.2.1 > http://pear.php.net/package/File_XSPF 0.1.0 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
