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A tip a day - Highlight a portion of text, searching a word

 
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bimal
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:10 pm    Post subject: A tip a day - Highlight a portion of text, searching a word Reply with quote

In this tutorial, I am describing my trick how I built and highlighted a search term in my dreams project. URL: http://dreams.gaindakot.com.np/

Ok, basically, this is an e-book of dictionary of dreams from wordsworth publication. Now, you can search your dream terms in the search box there.

But the problem is that many search terms may match in various dreams descriptions. For example, if you search for 'brother', the text might match with the words like 'mountain', and 'kiss' which is VALID. (Their descriptions have the search term - brother.

So, to see, in which part of the text, the match was found, I needed to highlight the search string. In my case, I wrote a small modifier to do this. See a sample usage below:
Code:
<div class="text">{$dreams[d].t|highlight:$search_tag}</div>

hilight is a modifer that uses HTML/CSS to decorate the text. I am replacing the matched string with some piece of css/html combination to highlight. Watch the modifier below (modifier.highlight.php in your plugins folder)
Code:
<?php
/**
* Highlights a text by searching a word in it.
*/
function smarty_modifier_highlight(&$text='', $word='')
{
   $new_text = $text;
   if($word)
   {
      $word = ucwords($word);
      $new_text = str_ireplace($word, "<span class='hilight'>{$word}</span>", $text);
   }
   return($new_text);
}
?>

If you like, you can easily use this modifier. Just note that in a piece of text ($dreams[d].t), you should send a search word ($search_tag) correctly.

Important notice:
In this example, pulling the searching results is done through sql full text search. But while highlighting the text, it is NOT so intelligent. Hence, some oddities are there. For example, if you search 'hat', it is likely to match a useless/common word 'that' because, 'that' contains 'hat' in its spelling. My project accepts this error.

Love you all the readers! Enjoy highlighting most important moments of your life.
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elpmis
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Useful like all your plugins Smile - thx!
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mohrt
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want to find whole words (so "hat" won't find "that"), use preg_replace with word boundaries. I simplified and debugged your code a bit too.

Code:
function smarty_modifier_highlight($text='', $word='')
{
   if(strlen($text) > 0 && strlen($word) > 0)
   {
      return preg_replace('/\b('.preg_quote($word).')\b/', '<span class="highlight">${1}</span>', $text);
   }
   return($text);
}
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elpmis
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thx a lot ...
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