Make certain characters of a word from a string bold

Question

I need to highlight certain characters from a string, I tried str_replace and preg_replace. But they only work when you enter a full word,

$text = str_replace($searhPhrase, '<b>'.$searhPhrase.'</b>',  $text);
$text = preg_replace('/('. $searhPhrase .')/i', '<b>$1</b>', $text);

I need something like, if I'm looking for "and", even the letters from "hand" should be selected.

Thanks in advance.

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Neha dangui Jul 24 '15 at 9:24

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vks · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-24T09:27:33+0000

$text = preg_replace('/\S*('. $searhPhrase .')\S*/i', '<b>$1</b>', $text);

This should do it for you.

or

if you want to select the whole word

$text = preg_replace('/(\S*'. $searhPhrase .'\S*)/i', '<b>$1</b>', $text);