search for string:

[sniped22]

Another question so soon? yes!

 

I need to parse through text that was entered by the user to find two words in a row, "Dealt to"

 

so i find the "dealt to" line and after that is a word which I would like to change the color of.

for example:

Dealt to CheeseMan [X Y] // I would like to A) find this line b)change the text of 
//CheeseMan to blue C) represent X with x.jpg and y with y.jpg

 

thanks again for all of your help!

[AndyB]

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php

[MadTechie]

as i am praticing RegEx

 

$input = "We are PHP Freaks";
$find = "PHP";
$output = preg_replace('/('.$find.' )(\w+)/im', '$1<font color="#0000FF">$2<font>', $input );
echo $output;

 

We are PHP <font color="#0000FF">Freaks<font>

We are PHP Freaks

[sniped22]

when I use strpos:

 

$pos = strpos($ph, $findme);

 

I am returned with the character's number. How do I go about editing the characters after that number?

 

example:

 

$pos returns 100, how do I go about editing character number 102?

 

or at least how do I get the string that starts at the "D" in dealt to and ends with the "[" in [X Y]

 

Thanks again

[MadTechie]

use substr to grab the data either side etc..

 

did you try my regexp example?

[sniped22]

regex seems waaaaaay too confusing.

[MadTechie]

all you need is the input and the find i have done the rest for you! 

 

i'll let you fiddle with substr + strpos

 

as a note if you have PHP5 you can use stripos (ignores case)

 

[sniped22]

nevermind, figured it out with substr.

 

Thanks for the advice Mad and Andy.

[sniped22]

just realized something:

if i get the string "dealt to CheeseMan [<img src = x.jpg> <img src = y.jpg>]"

 

how can i re-inject this into the "haystack" string at strpos's value?

[MadTechie]

No build a new string buy concatenating the extracts from substr