Highlighting Searched Words

[jeby]

Hi All!

I am writing an application using Dreamweaver MX 2004, Coldfusion 7, and MySQL
Databases. I am wondering if there is a way to make it so that when a page of
search results is shown, the search work could be in bold every time it occurs
on the page. It would be similar to most search engines. I could really use
this and can not find a way to do it!!! Open to ALL suggestions! Thank you
very much for your help!

Thanks!

Josh Eby
[email]jeby@constps.org[/email]

[jeby]

Hi All!

I am writing an application using Dreamweaver MX 2004, Coldfusion 7, and MySQL
Databases. I am wondering if there is a way to make it so that when a page of
search results is shown, the search work could be in bold every time it occurs
on the page. It would be similar to most search engines. I could really use
this and can not find a way to do it!!! Open to ALL suggestions! Thank you
very much for your help!

Thanks!

Josh Eby
[email]jeby@constps.org[/email]

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

jeby wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> I am writing an application using Dreamweaver MX 2004, Coldfusion 7, and MySQL
> Databases. I am wondering if there is a way to make it so that when a page of
> search results is shown, the search work could be in bold every time it occurs
> on the page. It would be similar to most search engines. I could really use
> this and can not find a way to do it!!! Open to ALL suggestions! Thank you
> very much for your help!

The new Verity engine that's built into CF 7 has this capability, so
depending on what you're trying to do you could index your database
content with Verity and use Verity for your searching:
[url]http://tinyurl.com/c879c[/url]

If you want to use MySQL directly, one way to do this would be to run a
regular expression on your search results before presenting them to the
user that would find the search terms and wrap them in bold tags.

Matt
--
Matt Woodward
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[DaveF67]

Try this UDF for Highlighting: [url]http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=133[/url]

[jeby]

I know it has been a while since i have responded to this post but could you explain more about the regular expresion and show how to do that???

Thanks for the help!

[michaelmuller]

I'm not sure if this is the same highlighter I've used in the past, but one
problem with the function is that it also highlights text in an anchor tag,
thus rendering the url and the whole tag useless. It would be nice if it didn't
highligh anything inside pairs of angle brackets.

[revblont]

Attached is code I used for a project some time back. check out [url]http://itafrica.org/pages/home.cfm?c=1[/url] and do a search for say "info".