styling a .txt file?

[foevah]

Hi everyone,

 

I would like to know how to output a .txt into a PHP page and then style the text that is inside the .txt file.

 

For example lets say I have this in the .txt file:

 

Hello my name is Mattew

 

Then on my PHP page I would like the .txt file to be shown with styles like this:

 

Hello my name is Mathew

 

Please can someone help me? I have done some research but I have not had much luck in finding an exact solution.

 

[The Little Guy]

I would use regular expressions to do this, and make bbcode or something...

 

http://phpsnips.com/snippet.php?id=41

[nafetski]

In that particular example you could also explode the string, and style the first and last element.

 

If it always works that way =)

 

 

[Jabop]

Sounds like you're going to have to use a lot of preg_replace();

[discomatt]

Did you just want to style random words with random styles or what? Throw us a bone, please

[thebadbad]

If you for example want all instances of "Mathew" to be in red, str_replace (or str_ireplace, for case insensitivity) will suffice:

 

<?php
$text = file_get_contents('path/to/filename.txt');
// $text now holds 'Hello my name is Mathew'
$text = str_replace('Mathew', '<span style="color: red;">Mathew</span>', $text);
echo $text;
// Hello my name is <span style="color: red;">Mathew</span>
?>

[The Little Guy]

If you plan you use BBC, then I just want you to know that I updated the code:

http://phpsnips.com/snippet.php?id=41

[thebadbad]

If you plan you use BBC, then I just want you to know that I updated the code:

http://phpsnips.com/snippet.php?id=41

 

If you haven't already found it; you've made a mistake - remove 'px' from the "color" replacement

[The Little Guy]

If you plan you use BBC, then I just want you to know that I updated the code:

http://phpsnips.com/snippet.php?id=41

 

If you haven't already found it; you've made a mistake - remove 'px' from the "color" replacement

 

Oh, thank you, its fixed.

[discomatt]

Or even better

 

http://php.net/manual/en/intro.bbcode.php

[thebadbad]

The Little Guy - you forgot to escape the square brackets in the patterns, and I would add the s modifier to match newline characters also.