php from ColdFusion - how do I do this?

[Anon]

I am new to php and am just trying to familiarize myself with php string functions. The code below, would take the string, "bold" and insert a substring at the position 2 characters to the right of where it finds the hyphen.

Can someone show me how you would do this in PHP? Thanks!

<cfset bold = "Vice president - 2125551212">
<cfset insertPos = Find("-",#bold#)-2>
<cfset bold= insert("</b>",#bold#,insertPos)>

<cfoutput><b>#bold#</cfoutput>

[bidllc]

...there is supposed to be a "<b>" just before the 1st # sign in the last line! how do you insert code in this forum??

[Anon]

$text = "Vice president - 2125551212";
$hyphen_pos = strpos($text, "-");

$bold_text = substr($text, 0, $hyphen_pos+2).
"bold".
substr($text, $hyphen_pos+2);

[Anon]

Thanks Jack... this is what I was looking for. BTW, how do you post html in this forum, and have it displayed?

[Anon]

I don't think you can. The only one i know of that works is & n b s p ; (separated so it wouldn't work) 🙂

That way you can at least apply a little formatting to your code.

Jack