Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 05/11/05 19:43

Merlin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to mark words inside a sentence bold. Problem is, if there
> is an overlap it does not work anymore.
> I am using this code: $t = str_replace($word, "<b>$word</b>", $text);
>
> For eample:
> Mark those words bold: adventure in singapore
> Text: My adventure flying to singapore
>
> The problem lays in the word "in". The code I use does produce following:
> <b>s<b>in</b>gapore</b>
> which of course does not work properly.
>
> Does anybody have a good sugestion on how to improve this?`

use preg_replace('/\b'.preg_quote($word).'\b/', '<b>'.$word.'</b>', ..);

\b is word boundary

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