preg_replace

[dreamwest]

Im trying to highlight some words within a html string but its returning highlights between tags.

 

$txt = "Hello this is a <a href='/link.php' title='hello php'>link</a> within php";
echo preg_replace("/\b(hello|php)\b/is",'<b style="color:black;background-color: #FFFF00">\1</b>',$txt);

 

I need it to return:

<b style="color:black;background-color: #FFFF00">Hello</b> this is a <a href='/link.php' title='hello php'>link</a> within <b style="color:black;background-color: #FFFF00">php</b>

[silkfire]

This is really advanced but say thank you to me for designing this right-on-the-spot regex:

 

$txt = 'Hello this is a <a href="/link.php" title="hello php">link</a> within php';
echo preg_replace('#(hello|php)(?!([^<]+)?>)#is', '<b style="color:black;background-color: #FFFF00">$1</b>', $txt);

 

 

[dreamwest]

Awesome! Works perfect

 

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