Highlight Search results

[lukeurtnowski]

I provide a search function on my site and would like to edit it so that it would highlight the search string found in every result found, is there a way to do this with php?

[mo0ness]

Do u mean u wish to to hightlight keywords? Like..they typed "books" and all the results shown, the sentence with the word "books" in, the word gets hightlighed?

[lukeurtnowski]

Exactly, do you know how, or point me in the right direction

[Jeroen_nld]

$marksearchwordyellow=eregi_replace ("$searchword","<font color=yellow>$searchword</font>",$nameofstringtocheck);

[mcgruff]

This will work on multiple search terms in an array ($words). Create a CSS style "highlight" (or use font tags if you don't use styles).

foreach ($words as $value) {              

    $highlighted_words[$x] = "<span class=\"highlight\">" . $value . "</span>";
    $x++;
}
$text = str_replace($words, $highlighted_words, $text);