agh help (strings)

[mikefrederick]

Okay, have a script I am using to search a database. It searches correctly, separating each worth with a space (" "). However, I am also trying to replace the search query with a different color, and this only works up until the first space. After that, the search still works but nothing is replaced with a different color. Thanks in advance:

 

$bar = $_GET['letters'];
$bar = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9 ]/si","",$bar);
$x=explode(" ",$bar);
$z="<span style='color: #000066; font-weight: 600'>" . implode(" </span><span style='color: #000066; font-weight: 600'>",$x) . "</span>";
$search = "WHERE name LIKE '%" . implode("%' and name LIKE '%", $x) . "%' ";
$res=mysql_query("select * from schools " . $search . " order by name limit 7");


while($inf = mysql_fetch_array($res)){
$t=$inf["name"];

$a=str_replace($bar,$z,$t);

	echo $inf["id"]."###".$a."|";
 }	

 

 

$a=str_replace($bar,$z,$t); is the function used to replace the search query (I realize how incorrect I have this setup right now, I just held down apple+z for about a half hour undoing the different ways I have tried this).

[mikefrederick]

someones gotta know. my problem is that I need to do str_replace to each part of the exploded array, and replace it with the same thing in a different color. but when I try to do that, it actually replaces each word with the word array.

[sasa]

try

<?php
$x = array('add','xx','yy');
$t = 'Add fg hij yy maxxim';
echo
$o = preg_replace('/(('.implode(')|(',$x).'))/i','<span style=\'color: #000066; font-weight: 600\'>$1</span>',$t);
?>