Array Search Problem

Opteron

.....
if (array_search($htmldescription,) == true)
.....

i basically want the code search in $htmldescription for tag and if found replace it with . but when i put the code i get the error:

array_search() [function.array-search]: Wrong datatype for second argument

how can i search in the $htmldescription function ?

devinemke

is $htmldescription an array or a string? if it's a string...

str_replace('<strong>', '<b>', $htmldescription);
str_replace('</strong>', '</b>', $htmldescription);

if it's an array then loop thru the array and do the above on each array value.

NogDog

You could use [man]array_map/man:

function myFunc($a)
{
   return(preg_replace('#<(/?)strong>#i', '<\\1b>', $a));
}
$htmldescription = array_map('myFunc', $htmldescription);

However, I am curious as to why you feel it is necessary to change the more semantically meaningful tag to the less meaningful tag? (In other words: is this really necessary at all?)

Opteron

reason is having a consistent markup.we have 2 freelancers. they do html their way.what we end up is mix up of s and s in a single html file.a bit unprofessional. thank you guys.

for only giving a message what would i do? only searching and if found only give a message.

NogDog

You could use [man]preg_grep/man.

Weedpacket

Strictly speaking and represent two different things. The first to mark out a short piece of inline text from its surroundings (for example, in paragraphs that introduce new terms, the new terms may be marked with a b element); the latter to emphasise a piece of text as being important.

Because most browsers that supported such fancy handling of text in the mid-1990s handled both the same way, people got it into their heads that they were interchangeable. But those were something like ten years ago now....