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Highlight Words in Search Results

When searching text for a specific keyword or keywords, it's good practice to give the user the option of deciding whether they'd like those keywords highlighted in search results. The following PHP function will highlight defined keywords in text by regular expression.

It will turn this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit semper amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Semper vestibulum eu nulla auctor, vehicula sem vel, suscipit lorem ligula. Quisque libero lorem, semper eget fermentum id, condimentum at turpis.

Into this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit semper amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Semper vestibulum eu nulla auctor, vehicula sem vel, suscipit lorem ligula. Quisque libero lorem, semper eget fermentum id, condimentum at turpis.

PHP Functions

This is the older function we used. PHP's ereg_replace() function was depreciated in version 5.3.0 meaning that it's not an ideal long-term solution.

<?php

Highlight Words in Search Results

http://www.beliefmedia.com/code/php-snippets/highlight-search

function beliefmedia_highlight($text, $words, $color='yellow', $case = true) {

$words = trim($words);

$words_array = explode(' ', $words);

foreach($words_array as $word) {

if(strlen(trim($word)) != 0)

$text = ($case !== false) ? eregi_replace($word, '\\0', $text) : ereg_replace($word, '\\0', $text);

}

return $text;

}

A more-up-to-date function is as follows.

<?php

Highlight Words in Search Results

http://www.beliefmedia.com/code/php-snippets/highlight-search

function beliefmedia_highlights($text, $words, $case = false) {

$words = trim($words);

$words_array = explode(',', $words);

$regex = ($case !== false) ? '/\b(' . implode('|', array_map('preg_quote', $words_array)) . ')\b/i' : '/\b(' . implode('|', array_map('preg_quote', $words_array)) . ')\b/';

foreach($words_array as $word) {

if(strlen(trim($word)) != 0)

$text = preg_replace($regex, '$1', $text);

}

return $text;

}

Both are a little old. We'll share others soon.

Example

Using the last function, use the following:

<?php

$words = 'lorem,semper,ipsum';

$text = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit semper amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Semper vestibulum eu nulla auctor, vehicula sem vel, suscipit lorem ligula. Quisque libero lorem, semper eget fermentum id, condimentum at turpis.';

echo beliefmedia_highlights($text, $words, $case = false);

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