PHP - Match Word In String

Hello,

I have several job categories on a recruitment website:

$job_category[0]="accountant";
$job_category[1]="php programming";
$job_category[2]="baseball";

these job categories are contained within the urls imediately after the recruiting company's name and before the word "jobs", so we could have the following urls:

www.url.com/company_name_accountant_jobs
www.url.com/another_company_name_baseball_jobs
www.url.com/yet_another_company_name_php programming_jobs

Using the array $job_categories and the page path after the foward slash (e.g. yet_another_company_name_php programming_jobs) please could you tell me how to strip out the job category and the company name? (I'll extract the page path using a mod_rewrite)

Thanks

Stu

I want to catch the first word of a string in which the words are separated by "-" (e.g. "first-word-second-one-more"). I used this code: $string = explode('-', $string);
echo $string[0];

The problem is that when the string contains only one word, it returns null 

Folks,

I want to find a Word in a string. If the word is found, i want to retrun TRUE else FALSE.

$string: Sol 3 Drawer Chests Antique Pine Bedside Chest

$word to be found: Chest

Now the tricky part is: In the $string the $word occurs twice once its CHESTS (i mean the first occurance) then CHEST.

If its found, i want to return TRUE else FALSE.

I tried using strpos() but it just checks for CHEST and not CHESTS.

How can it be achieved?

Cheers
Natasha

There are many ways to delete everything after a character in a string. I am looking for a simple way to delete everything after a given word.

I have been becoming more and more familiar with PHP over the past few months, but this problem stumps me.

How can I take a string of words separated by spaces taken from an XML feed (example: word1 word2 word3 word4)

and turn it into something like this:

<a href="word1">word1</a>
<a href="word2">word2</a>
...

and so on. This has to be done on the fly, since it is taking the words from the XML feed, they change depending on the page.

I want them to be in a vertical column, and be able to link each one to the search page for that word, so each link has to be different.


An even more in-depth problem, how can I sort it then so that there are multiple columns if necessary, say one page only has 3 words, but another has 50. How can I split them up into multiple vertical columns, say with 10 words in each?


Have I confused anyone yet?

Hi, and thanks for any help with this. 

I have this but of php i have been trying relentlessly to get working.. for over a month.
 

<?php
$abs="one two three four words";
$mT = "testing for matching words";

$words=explode(' ', $abs);
//$sf=($words);


if (preg_match($words, $mT))
{
        echo "the url $mT contains a Word";
}
else
{
        echo "the url $mT does Not contain a Word";

echo "$words[4]";

}
?>

You see, I get a responce only using the last line "$words[4]", (obviously, because I am pointing it the Matching word, (ie: with [4])
What i need to have is that the script will automatically "find" that Matching Word for me with ANYwhere of the string of $abs (not just the beginning or the ending)". 

not making it confusing, but the obvious word in this I am looking to find is the word, "words".
😕

Thanks so much for any help.

 

 

Edited June 9, 2020 by x1705
better description.

How could I split a string in half but not in the middle of a word?


$information = "This is the string of text, however at some point in the sentence a word may get split in half.";
$cut = round(strlen($information)/2); ///where to cut (50%)
$split1 = substr($information, 0, $cut); //first half
$split2 = substr($information, $cut); // second half

Hi,

I am trying to make some adjustments to uploadify.php which comes with the latest version of uploadify (3.0 beta), so that it works with a session variable that stores the login username and adds it to the path for uploads.  Here is uploadify.php as it currently looks:

Code: [Select]
<?php
session_name("MyLogin");
session_start();

$targetFolder = '/songs/' . $_SESSION['name']; // Relative to the root

if (!empty($_FILES)) {
$tempFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
$targetPath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $targetFolder;
$targetFile = rtrim($targetPath,'/') .'/'. $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

// Validate the file type
$fileTypes = array('m4a','mp3','flac','ogg'); // File extensions
$fileParts = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes)) {
move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetFile);
echo '1';
} else {
echo 'Invalid file type.';
}
}

echo $targetFolder;

?>
I added Code: [Select]
echo $targetFolder; at the bottom so that I could make sure that the string returned was correct, and it is, i.e. '/songs/nick'.  For some reason though, uploads are not going to the correct folder, i.e. the username folder, but instead are going to the parent folder 'songs'.  The folder for username exists, with correct permissions, and when I manually enter Code: [Select]
$targetFolder = '/songs/nick';all works fine.  Which strikes me as rather strange.  I have limited experience of using php, but wonder how if the correct string is returned by the session variable, the upload works differently than with the manually entered string.

Any help would be much appreciated.  It's the last issue with a website that was due to go live 2 days ago!

Thanks,

Nick

This topic has been moved to PHP Regex.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=326004.0

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to read my thread. My issue is that I can't think of a way to edit a XML file using PHP's XML functionality and then assign the edited contents to a string instead of saving the file. Because my issue is that I have to edit the XML file based upon a string brought from a remote location then give it back to that remote location using a string again, to be exact I am doing it via Linux command line utilizing SSH2.

This is what I managed to complete on my own.


function CheckIVMPConfig($ServerID)
{
global $Panel;

if(is_numeric($ServerID) && $this->IsValidServer($ServerID))
{
// We select the game server that the FTP account was created for.
$Servers = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_servers WHERE server_id = '".mysql_real_escape_string($FTPAccount['ftp_server'])."'");
$Server = mysql_fetch_array($Servers);

// Here we select the Box ID that the game server is on.
$Boxs = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_machines WHERE machine_id = '".$Server['server_machine']."'");
$Box = mysql_fetch_array($Boxs);

// Now we select the required package for the box.
$Packages = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM control_packages WHERE package_id = '".$Server['server_package']."'");
$Package = mysql_fetch_array($Packages);

// Retrive the file.
$Config = $CProtocol->exec("cat /home/{$Server['server_id']}/{$Package['package_config']}");

$Parse = SimpleXMLElement($Config);

foreach($Parse as $Entry) // loop through our books
{
if($Entry->port != $Server['server_port'])
{
// edit the value
}
else if($Entry->maxplayers > $Server['server_slots'])
{
// edit the value
}
}
}
}

Hello all,

I'm trying to change the end of a javascript call based on the end of the url string. The common part of all the url strings is sobi2Id=, I'm trying to do this with strstr but am having no luck. I'm new to php so my syntax knowledge is terrible!

at the moment i've got

Code: [Select]
<?php

       $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

     $tag = strstr ($url, 'sobi2Id=');

       echo $tag; 
?>
but this returns an unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

Can anyone debug this? I may well be being really silly!

I'm having trouble of getting the code right
When i try to dump the $x value it's appearing null;

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class Dictionary{

var $id=null;
var $en=null;
var $sp=null;
var $type=null;

public function __construct($data=array())
{
   if( isset($data['id']) ) $this->id= (int)$data['id'];
   if( isset($data['en']) ) $this->en= $data['en'];
   if( isset($data['sp']) ) $this->sp= $data['sp'];
   if( isset($data['type']) ) $this->type= $data['type'];
 
}
public function store ( $params ) {
 
    // Store all the parameters
    $this->__construct( $params );
}



public function WordGet($word)//add the english and spanish word
{

$con = new PDO(DBN,DB_USER,DB_PASS);
$sql = "SELECT *FROM word WHERE MATCH(en) AGAINST ('ctx')";
$st = $con->prepare($sql);
$st->bindValue(':word',$word,PDO::PARAM_STR);
$st->execute();
$r = $st->fetch();

$con = null;
return new Dictionary($r);

}


$test = new Dictionary;

$x = $test->WordGet('ctx');


var_dump($x);

so I use file_get_contents to get the contents of a webpage, one of the lines has


Code: [Select]
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.google.com/blahblahblah?s=5cd04d4a7632296b9cdb463d04e82c05" />
I want it to echo only http://www.google.com/blahblahblah so anything between <meta property="og:url" content=" and ?s=5cd04d4a7632296b9cdb463d04e82c05" /> I want to extract and put into a variable

this works just fine but I was thinking preg match would be better


$thread = explode('<meta property="og:url" content="', $psuc);
$thread = explode('?s=', $thread[1]);
echo $thread[0];


Thanks