search the rich text data

[searain]

I have a glossary application set up. and the term defination is saved as "rich text" with html tags in it.

Now I want to be able to search the term defination field (rich text with html tags) but without the html tags interrupted.

such as if i search "computer CPU", the term defination saved as "computer <b> CPU </b>", I still want to be able to get this term returned as the search result.

How can I do that?

Thanks!!!

[LordShryku]

Are these saved in a database or a flat file? With the database, you could replace spaces in the search term with a % wildcard, but this would broaden your search results. A flat file, you could probably utilize strip_tags to do the search.

[searain]

The data is saved in the database. Any other approaches?

[searain]

strip_tags will strip all the tags, such as images etc. only return pure text?

so i may use the strip_tags to strip all the tags from the rich text value and save the pure text in another field and search the database in the pure text field.

Is that the best solution for my question?

But now, I have another question, I want to high light the "search word" in the term defination display page which is rich text.

So how can I high light the "search word" in the rich text field but I got the search results from searching in the pure text field.

Such as if I search "comptuer CPU" in the pure text field, and then return the rich text fields values as the search result. But How can I know that "computer <b>CPU</b>" should be highlighted.

Thanks!