highlight attributes

[The Little Guy]

I am trying to highlight attributes in a html tag, for some reason, this just isn't working, does anyone know why?

 

$string = '
<a href="home.html" style="color:blue;">Home</a>
<p>Hello</p>
';
$att = '#ff0000';
preg_replace('~^\s([a-z].*?)\=~', '<span style="color:'.$att.'">$1</span>', $string);

 

[nrg_alpha]

Sort of like this?

 

$string = <<<DATA
<a href="home.html" style="color:blue;">Home</a>
<p>Hello</p>
DATA;

$att = '#ff0000';
$string = preg_replace('#(style=[\'"]color:)[^;]+(;[\'"])#', '$1'.$att.'$2', $string);
echo $string;

[The Little Guy]

Got it!

 

http://phpsnips.com/snippet.php?id=70

 

 

'~(<\!--.*?-->)~',        // Hightlight comments 

 

How can I make the above search multi line?

 

Let me know what I can improve thanks!

[nrg_alpha]

For multiple lines, you can add the 's' modifier after the closing delimiter in your pattern.

[nrg_alpha]

You can read more about modifiers here.

[The Little Guy]

kool thanks! I was trying to use the 'm' modifier!