Change anything before :

Skull

ok on the below code what I have is an array with alot of names (i took the names out since there is one hell of a lot in there) then i run a for loop which makes it change any of the names in the array with : after it into bold white text. Now occasionaly a name that isn't in the array gets used and then it doesn't go bold which makes it look odd. To save me time adding even more words into the array is there anyway that can make anything that is before a : and after a change?

$arrayName = array( "Alot Of names in this array");


$arrayLength = count($arrayName);
$color1 = "yellow"; 
$color2 = "#0066FF"; 
$row_count = 0; 

for ($i = 0; $i < $arrayLength; $i++){
$name = $arrayName[$i];
    $row_color = ($row_count % 3) ? $color1 : $color2; 

		$matchresult = eregi_replace("$name:","</font><b><font color='white'>$name</b><font color=$row_color>",$matchresult);
$row_count++; 
}

If my explanation doesn't make sence then tell me and i'll re-say it but i think I explained it well enough, thanks to anyone that can help

Skull

can no-one help 🙁

hermzz

try

$text = explode(":" , $text);

this seperates $text into two or more pieces, seperated by the :

if $text is "my name is: lumber jack" you'll get
$text[0] = "my name is"
$text[1] = " lumber jack"

if you had more :'s then you'd get more pieces of the $text array.

if you want to seperate by another thing like a just change ":" for " "

Skull

ok for the sake of testing I did this


$text = "Me: Hello<br>You:Boo";
$text = explode(":|<br>" , $text);
$i = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < count($text); $i++){
echo "</font><b>".$text[$i]."</b>:";
$i++;
echo "<font color='red'>".$text[$i]."</font>";
echo "<br><br>";
}

and thought it would work...but it never, instead I got this as the html output

Me: Hello You:Boo:

so..if I wanted to make it explode both : and am I going about it the right way or the wrong way?

LordShryku

So, since it's just a bunch of names....couldn't you just use some str_replace's?

$text = "Me: Hello<br>You:Boo";
$text = str_replace(":","</b>:",$text);
$text = str_replace("<br>","<br><b>",$text);

Or something to that effect?

Skull

can't believe i never thought of that lol, thanks both of you

LordShryku

It's usually the easy ones that take me forever. Unless it's someone else's 😃