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how do I highlight the differences between two varaibles
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:09 pm
by someguyhere
Let's say:
$a = "This is really great text";
$b = "This was really bad text";
Is there a way to go find and highlight the parts that are different? For example, use using a foreach w/ a str_replace to wrap a span that uses CSS to highlight each part of $b that is different from $a ?
Re: how do I highlight the differences between two varaibles
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:27 pm
by olidenia
This sould do the job, got it from:
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?p=142539
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<?php
/*
Paul's Simple Diff Algorithm v 0.1
(C) Paul Butler 2007 <http://www.paulbutler.org/>
May be used and distributed under the zlib/libpng license.
This code is intended for learning purposes; it was written with short
code taking priority over performance. It could be used in a practical
application, but there are a few ways it could be optimized.
Given two arrays, the function diff will return an array of the changes.
I won't describe the format of the array, but it will be obvious
if you use print_r() on the result of a diff on some test data.
htmlDiff is a wrapper for the diff command, it takes two strings and
returns the differences in HTML. The tags used are <ins> and <del>,
which can easily be styled with CSS.
*/
function diff($old, $new){
foreach($old as $oindex => $ovalue){
$nkeys = array_keys($new, $ovalue);
foreach($nkeys as $nindex){
$matrix[$oindex][$nindex] = isset($matrix[$oindex - 1][$nindex - 1]) ?
$matrix[$oindex - 1][$nindex - 1] + 1 : 1;
if($matrix[$oindex][$nindex] > $maxlen){
$maxlen = $matrix[$oindex][$nindex];
$omax = $oindex + 1 - $maxlen;
$nmax = $nindex + 1 - $maxlen;
}
}
}
if($maxlen == 0) return array(array('d'=>$old, 'i'=>$new));
return array_merge(
diff(array_slice($old, 0, $omax), array_slice($new, 0, $nmax)),
array_slice($new, $nmax, $maxlen),
diff(array_slice($old, $omax + $maxlen), array_slice($new, $nmax + $maxlen)));
}
function htmlDiff($old, $new){
$diff = diff(explode(' ', $old), explode(' ', $new));
foreach($diff as $k){
if(is_array($k))
$ret .= (!empty($k['d'])?"<del>".implode(' ',$k['d'])."</del> ":'').
(!empty($k['i'])?"<ins>".implode(' ',$k['i'])."</ins> ":'');
else $ret .= $k . ' ';
}
return $ret;
}
?>