Question

I have a script that pulls data from a database, and based on the info pulled, I want to colorize it and stuff

I want to make it so that if the data pulled is

&cTe&bst

It replaces it with

<font style="color:#F55">Te</font><font style="color:#5FF">st</font>

But also I need to make sure I can add more and more to it.

I’d also like it to be a function so I can simply do

$this->colorize('&cTe&bst');

I’m using CodeIgniter

Answer 1

function colorize($in)
{
    $Colors = array(
        "b" => "#000",
        "w" => "#FFF",
        "g" => "#AAA"
    );

    $in = "<span>" . $in;

    foreach($Colors as $Prefix => $Color)
    {
        $in = str_replace( "&" . $Prefix, "</span><span style='color: " . $Color . "'>", $in );
    }

    $in .= "</span>";
    return $in;
}

Simple and easy to use.