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POPhp mysql search script, how to make single searched words bold if the search term wasn't the exact match to my database entry
 

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    <p>Below is my script so far. This displays the users search term in bold if it is an exact match. For example. if the user searched "john bloggs" then it would be returned bold. whereas if the user searched for "john" then it would show the john bloggs entry but it wouldnt be in bold. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <pre><code>&lt;? mysql_connect ("localhost", "user","pass") or die (mysql_error()); mysql_select_db ("databasename"); $term = $_POST['term']; $sql = mysql_query("select * from tablename where category like '%$term%' or title like '%$term%' or postcode like '%$term%' or info like '%$term%' "); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){ echo '&lt;br/&gt; Category: '.str_replace($term,'&lt;b&gt;'.$term.'&lt;/b&gt;',$row['category']); echo '&lt;br/&gt; Title: '.str_replace($term,'&lt;b&gt;'.$term.'&lt;/b&gt;',$row['title']); echo '&lt;br/&gt; Address: '.$row['add1']; echo '&lt;br/&gt; Street: '.$row['street']; echo '&lt;br/&gt; City: '.$row['city']; echo '&lt;br/&gt; Postcode: '.str_replace($term,'&lt;b&gt;'.$term.'&lt;/b&gt;',$row['postcode']); echo '&lt;br/&gt; Phone: '.$row['phone']; echo '&lt;br/&gt; E-Mail: '.$row['email']; echo '&lt;br/&gt; Website: '.$row['website']; echo '&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;'; } ?&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COhello, the problem is that i only get bold matched results if it is an exact match. so if someone typed "national health service" it would return in bold. whereas if someone typed "national" then it would return but not in bold. thanks
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    2. COYou could also create a small function to pass the term and $row in. So getTerm($term,$row['category']) where you function will return a string depending on if they are equal to not. Just a little easier to read. The other thing is, you are open to SQL injection.
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    3. COBTW: in times of upcoming HTML5 you may use `<mark>search term</mark>` instead of `<b>`. See: http://html5doctor.com/draw-attention-with-mark/
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