PHP IN_Array function

TBotNik · 12-20-2021, 12:06 PM

All,

Working on a script to convert online search results download files into a MySQL .sql input file. Code is below.

I have no problem scanning the directory with the files and the 1st foreach loop eliminates all non .html files and .html~ edit files.

The "$filr = file($s_path.$fval);" statement correctly loads the file into an array for processing, showing the contents correctly displayed by the print_r statement.

What is not working are the "in_array" statements so only the "get_flat" function is being called. The 3 different files downloaded are either table, div or flat-file display source.

The 3 different functions exist, because"

The "Table" processing looks for and extracts rows,
The DIV looks for DIV class to extract rows,
The FLAT uses each non-blank line to extract
- Name,
- URL,
- City,
- State.
But there are variable blanks in the lines of data and not alignable by column location.

First time for me using in_array and not sure if it is looking for an entire element such as:

Code:

$ray[1] = 'table'

Instead of finding 'table' as a substring in the array element.

Code:

	$f_ray	=	scandir ( $s_path );
	foreach ($f_ray as $fval) {
		// Only read the .html files
		$posstr	=	strpos ($fval, 'html');
		$edtfil	=	strpos ($fval, '~');
		if ( ( $posstr < 1 ) || ( $edtfil > 1 ) ) { continue; }
		$fil_r[]	=	$fval;
	}	// end foreach $f_ray	
	$o_ray	=	array();
	foreach ($fil_r as $fval) {
		echo "File => $fval \n";
		$filr = file($s_path.$fval);
		print_r ( $filr );		// Works corretly
		if ( in_array ( '<table', $filr ) ) 	{ get_table ( $fval, $filr ); }
//		if ( in_array ( '<div', $filr ) ) 		{ get_div ( $fval, $filr ); }
		get_flat ( $fval, $filr );	// Only function being called
	}	// end foreach $fil_r	
exit;

Hope someone can explain how "in_array" actually works and if it will either need "htmlspecialcharacters" or another approach to find the substrings in the array I'm looking for!

Cheers!

TBNK

TBotNik · 12-20-2021, 12:47 PM

All,

According to:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...l-string-match

There has to be this function:

Code:

function array_search_partial($arr, $keyword) {
    foreach($arr as $index => $string) {
        if (strpos($string, $keyword) !== FALSE)
            return $index;
    }
}

I added it as:

Code:

function fnd_raysubstr ( $myval, $myray ) {
	echo "Finding Substr in Array!";
	foreach($myray as $index => $str) {
		if (strpos($str, $myval) !== FALSE)
			return $index;
		}	// end if strpos
	}	// end foreach $myray
}	// end function fnd_raysubstr

Tesing it now!

Cheers!

TBNK

TBotNik · 12-21-2021, 12:26 PM

All,

That function worked just fine. PHP should have a command/function that actually does this natively. Where do I post it as a suggestion?

Cheers!

TBNK