Question

I have a string in which I want to highlight word “some”:

$my_string = "This is some string.";
$highlight = "some";

And I need to wrap this word in <span> tags using some php function which can suit this job the best.

I am using this for my simple search on my website.

So, I would like the end result looks like this:

This is <span class="highlight-word">some</span> string.

Answer 1

You can use str_replace as mentioned in comments. So, in your case, it’d look like this:

$my_string = "This is some string.";
$highlight = "some";

echo str_replace($highlight, sprintf('<span class="highlight-word">%s</span>', $highlight), $my_string);
// This is <span class="highlight-word">some</span> string.