strange way of searching

[lajkonik86]

Heey

I'm wondering if i have
$myvar['tree'] = 'this great tree';
$myvar['apple'] = 'something which grows on a tree';
is there any way to run a function over the $myvar
and change $myvar['apple'] to have the word tree be a link.

It's for a help function 🙂 This is basicly all it needs to do, but if you know some really awesome opensource script let me know 🙂

[devinemke]

lajkonik86 wrote:

is there any way to run a function over the $myvar
and change $myvar['apple'] to have the word tree be a link.

link to what?

$myvar['tree'] = 'this great tree';
$myvar['apple'] = 'something which grows on a tree';

$myvar['apple'] = str_replace('tree', '<a href="url">tree</a>', $myvar['apple']);

[maxpup979]

basically you create a dictionary of words/links that you run accross your data before outputting it. much like what the post above did...

[lajkonik86]

the above was ment as an example

I would like to search the contents of the entire array for each of the array names (not sure they are called like that but in my example i mean tree and apple)
And then if it finds the word in the contents change it to a link

[lajkonik86]

in reply to maxpup

yes thing is the dictionary is the array vallues which excists in this case tree and apple

[maxpup979]

so you can get the array keys with array_keys. find your matches in your dictionary array.
then do the str_replace

[lajkonik86]

So something like this

$myvar['tree'] = 'this great tree';
$myvar['apple'] = 'something which grows on a tree';
$keys = array_keys($myvar);

//
// some search things getting me $totalfound and arrays $foundinkey, $wordfound
//

while ($count < $totalfound) {
$myvar['$foundinkey'] = str_replace(' $wordfound', '<a href="url"> $wordfound</a>', $myvar['$foundinkey']);
$count++;
}

Any tips on the commented part?