Please help with regex problem

[stuartchaney]

Hey guys,

 

Really need some help with preg_replace that is driving me insane.

 

I have a foreach loop such as this

 

<?php
foreach ($example as $row){

$id=$row['id'];
$string=$row['string'];
}

 

 

I would like to do the following in each loop

 

<?php
foreach ($example as $row){

$id=$row['id'];
$string=$row['string'];


//$bad_words=array('bad','rotten');

//REPLACE EACH WORD apart from "bad words" INSIDE THE STRING WITH 
<a href="$row['id']">WORD FROM THE STRING</a>

}

 

 

Help really appreciated

 

Cheers,

 

Stuart

[Maq]

You can supply str_replace with an array of words you would like to replace and dynamically give it the replacement string.  Check out example #1 on that page.  If I understand you correctly this is what you want to do.  You should try to avoid regex string functions unless you absolutely need them.

[stuartchaney]

Thanks for the reply Maq, the problem is that I want to put a href tag around words that I dont have in an array and link the id of each a href to the corresponding $row['id'] for each loop. Any ideas?