How can I show the actual “search term” from the content in the post page and display it in wordpress?

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I want to show on the search results page, a sentence or few words where the search term is actually located within the content in the post and display it and underline the search term.

For the title I have done similar like this:

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<?php $title = get_the_title(); $keys= explode(" ",$s); $title = preg_replace('/('.implode('|', $keys) .')/iu', '<u class="search-excerpt"></u>', $title); ?>
                <h3 class="test"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $title; ?></a></h3>

How can I show approx 15 words or so from the actual “search term” from the post content page and display it?

for example I want to make similar:

Search term = omnis

Show this = Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque

Thanks a bunch,

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  1. Kind of found one answer here:
    http://atastypixel.com/blog/keeping-blog-visitors-by-showing-meaningful-search-results-in-wordpress/

    <?php
// Configuration
$max_length = 400; // Max length in characters
$min_padding = 30; // Min length in characters of the context to place around found search terms

// Load content as plain text
global $wp_query, $post;
$content = (!post_password_required($post) ? strip_tags(preg_replace(array("/r?n/", '@<s*(p|brs*/?)s*>@'), array(' ', "n"), apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content))) : '');

// Search content for terms
$terms = $wp_query->query_vars['search_terms'];
if ( preg_match_all('/'.str_replace('/', '/', join('|', $terms)).'/i',             $content, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE) ) {
$padding = max($min_padding, $max_length / (2*count($matches[0])));

  // Construct extract containing context for each term
  $output = '';
  $last_offset = 0;
  foreach ( $matches[0] as $match ) {
    list($string, $offset) = $match;
    $start  = $offset-$padding;
    $end = $offset+strlen($string)+$padding;
    // Preserve whole words
    while ( $start > 1 && preg_match('/[A-Za-z0-9'"-]/', $content{$start-1}) ) $start--;
    while ( $end < strlen($content)-1 && preg_match('/[A-Za-z0-9'"-]/', $content{$end}) ) $end++;
    $start = max($start, $last_offset);
        $context = substr($content, $start, $end-$start);
    if ( $start > $last_offset ) $context = '...'.$context;
    $output .= $context;
    $last_offset = $end;
  }

  if ( $last_offset != strlen($content)-1 ) $output .= '...';
} else {
  $output = $content;
}

if ( strlen($output) > $max_length ) {
  $end = $max_length-3;
  while ( $end > 1 && preg_match('/[A-Za-z0-9'"-]/', $output{$end-1}) ) $end--;
  $output = substr($output, 0, $end) . '...';
}

// Highlight matches
$context = nl2br(preg_replace('/'.str_replace('/', '/', join('|', $terms)).'/i', '<strong>$0</strong>', $output));
?>

<p class="search_result_context">
  <?php echo $context ?>
</p>

  2. If you want to use a plugin Relevanssi allows you to use a custom snippet for the returned results, for which you can set a length and choice of highlight for the searched-term.