Online PHP editor | output for IgIFs

<?php function highlight($text, $words) { preg_match_all ( '~[a-zA-Z_\']*~', $words, $m ); if (! $m) return $text; $re = '~\\b(' . implode ( '|', $m [0] ) . ')\\b~i'; return preg_replace ( $re, '<em>$0</em>', $text ); } $text = "this is Mechanic's test"; $word = "Mechanic's"; echo highlight($text,$word); $text = 'this is Mechanic"s test'; $word = 'Mechanic"s'; echo "\n".highlight($text,$word); $text = 'this is Mechanics test'; $word = 'mech'; echo "\n".highlight($text,$word); // echo "\n".str_replace($word,"<em>$word</em>",$text) ;