ereg? highlight searched words

[Anon]

Hello,

I'm building a search interface to search and retrieve URLs based on a mysql database.
How can I put in bold the searched words on the result?
I can do it using eregi_replace functions, but it only works if I search one word per time. If I search more words, it doesn't work. I already coded a function to explode the $search_string, separated by spaces, in order to build the SQL instruction (to search in various fields). Now I'm stucked with this 'highlight' (bold) feature.

Any help? Thanks in advance..

Nuno Mendes

[Anon]

i think i see what you're after.

you've got a list of search terms, right? so, read them into an array called (for convenience) $terms[]
then

while (list($junk, $word)=each($terms)) {
$text=eregi_replace("(".$word.")", "<b>\1</b>", $text);
}

alternatively, this is quicker (i think) but more obscure

$match=implode("|",$terms);
$text=eregi_replace("(".$match.")", "<b>\1</b>", $text);

does that answer your question?

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rad