Replacing Characters with Divs

[jwaldrip]

I am trying to replace characters with HTML. I need to look at a letter within a string and replace it with a div. For example in "jason" this would return 5 divs each with their own class. Glance at my code, what am i doing wrong?

 

 

<?

$repdiv[0] = '<div class="a"></div>'; 
$repdiv[1] = '<div class="b"></div>'; 
$repdiv[2] = '<div class="c"></div>'; 
$repdiv[3] = '<div class="d"></div>'; 
$repdiv[4] = '<div class="e"></div>'; 
$repdiv[5] = '<div class="f"></div>'; 
$repdiv[6] = '<div class="g"></div>'; 
$repdiv[7] = '<div class="h"></div>'; 
$repdiv[8] = '<div class="i"></div>'; 
$repdiv[9] = '<div class="j"></div>'; 
$repdiv[10] = '<div class="k"></div>'; 
$repdiv[11] = '<div class="l"></div>'; 
$repdiv[12] = '<div class="m"></div>'; 
$repdiv[13] = '<div class="n"></div>'; 
$repdiv[14] = '<div class="o"></div>'; 
$repdiv[15] = '<div class="p"></div>'; 
$repdiv[16] = '<div class="q"></div>'; 
$repdiv[17] = '<div class="r"></div>'; 
$repdiv[18] = '<div class="s"></div>'; 
$repdiv[19] = '<div class="t"></div>'; 
$repdiv[20] = '<div class="u"></div>'; 
$repdiv[21] = '<div class="v"></div>'; 
$repdiv[22] = '<div class="w"></div>'; 
$repdiv[23] = '<div class="x"></div>'; 
$repdiv[24] = '<div class="y"></div>'; 
$repdiv[25] = '<div class="z"></div>';

$letters[0] = '/a/';
$letters[1] = '/b/';
$letters[2] = '/c/';
$letters[3] = '/d/';
$letters[4] = '/e/';
$letters[5] = '/f/';
$letters[6] = '/g/';
$letters[7] = '/h/';
$letters[8] = '/i/';
$letters[9] = '/j/';
$letters[10] = '/k/';
$letters[11] = '/l/';
$letters[12] = '/m/';
$letters[13] = '/n/';
$letters[14] = '/o/';
$letters[15] = '/p/';
$letters[16] = '/q/';
$letters[17] = '/r/';
$letters[18] = '/s/';
$letters[19] = '/t/';
$letters[20] = '/u/';
$letters[21] = '/v/';
$letters[22] = '/w/';
$letters[23] = '/x/';
$letters[24] = '/y/';
$letters[25] = '/z/';

ksort ($letters);
ksort ($repdiv);

$printname = preg_replace( $letters , $repdiv, 'teststring' ); 
echo $printname;

?>

[marcus]

$string = "teststring";

for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++){
echo "<div class=\"".$string[$i]."\"></div>\n";
}

 

Worked for me.

 

Function wise could be:

 

function convert2div($string){
for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++){
	$text .= "<div class=\"".$string[$i]."\"></div>\n";
}

return $text;
}

echo convert2div('monkeys');

[jcd]

Glance at my code, what am i doing wrong?

I think (but not sure) its because:

 

Lets say your test string is 'ab'.

 

After the first match "a" is replaced the string has now changes to '<div class="a"></div>b'.

 

Now when it looks the next matches to replace it will the letters in teh div/class tag and replace them too.

 

View the html source of the output to see all the mangled divs.