can i emphasize what was searched for?

[roooooous]

<?php
//get the results and store them in $result
$result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM news WHERE storytext LIKE '%$search%'");
//run the while loop
while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{    
    //grab the result
    $storytext=$r["storytext"];
    //print it out
    echo "<p>$storytext";
    
    echo "<br><br><hr>";
    
}
//else nothing is found
//else
//{
//    echo "Nothing found";
//}
?>

this is my search function. if i search for a word it will return any blog entry that has that word. it'd be cool if i could get it to return the entire entry (like it already does) but with the word that was searched for in bold. could anyone show me a way to do that?

[platinum]

I guess the easist way is to just do

$storytext = str_replace($search, "<b>$search</b>", $storytext); 

[PHP John]

use str_replace()

$blog = str_replace( $word, "<font color='red'>$word</font>', $blog );

[img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] (with all this help, how could you go wrong!)

[tahjah]

echo str_ireplace($search, "<b>$search</b>", $storytext); 

Keep in mind that if you are searching by multiple/separate keywords that you'll have a different implementation.

Edit: Eh, two posts should be enough

[roooooous]

Thanks to all three!!! of you. and in about 10 minutes. what a great site this is.