highlighting background behind search term in results

[dannyb785]

I've got a search page that spits out results that match the term that was input. Within the results, I want to add a span with a yellow background behind just the search term. I'll show my code, then say my problem

 

<?php
$search = (term in $_GET variable that was searched for);
// while loop that goes through all results, $result is the text that the searched term was found in
  $new_result = str_ireplace($search, "<span style='background:yellow'>$search</span>", $result);
  echo $new_result;
// end while loop
?>

 

my problem is that if somebody searches for the word "bob", then if the term "Bob" was found, when it outputs the $new_result, it shows as "bob" with the yellow background. Searching for "Bob" would give the correct results("Bob" with a yellow background), but basically when the output is given, the case of each letter is displayed as it was typed in the search field.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You would use preg_replace to leave the letter-case as is. See this example - http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=350793.msg1655792#msg1655792

[dannyb785]

perfect, that fixes it, thanks! but I dunno how to set a topic as solved