str_replace function problem

[zerobreach_com]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here: :o

The array variable keeps showing as "Array" in the output.

<?php

//$words = './wordz.txt';
//$articles = './articles.txt';
//$domains = './domains.txt';

//$wordlist = file_get_contents($words);
//$articles_array = file_get_contents($articles);
//$domains_array = file_get_contents($domains);

$filename = "./articles.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$articles = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$wordlist = array("wedding", "BS");
$replacement = array("WEDDING", "CACA");
$dom = "domain.com";          

//$newphrase = str_replace($wordlist, $replacement, $articles);

//  :mad: 

$newphrase = [COLOR=Red](str_replace($wordlist, '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $replacement . '</a>', $articles));
[/COLOR]
print $newphrase;
//print $articles_array;
//print $wordlist;
//print $domains_array;


?>

Here is the output sample:

savor of all successful <a href="http://domain.com">Array</a>s to take center stage

Array is suppose to be WEDDING

It works when I don't attempt to include anything else in the "replace" field other than $replacement.

Also, does the "filez.txt" have to be in a specific format e.g. "word","word","word" or can it just be

word
word
word

???

I can't seem to get output from the array unless I hard code it into e.g. array("wedding", "BS");

Thank you all for any help! It would be a nice birthday present 😕

[konrad]

After concatenating string with array, array becomes 'Array' string. So '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $replacement . '</a>' where $replacement is an array, becomes '<a href="http://domain.com">Array</a>' . To change this, you should add link to all words in $replacement before they are passed to str_replace() function:

$replace_with = array();
foreach( $replacement as $elt ){
 $replace_with[] =  '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $elt . '</a>';
}

$newphrase = (str_replace($wordlist, $replace_with, $articles));

It doesn't matter in what format your input is.

[zerobreach_com]

Thank You Thank You Thank YOU! KONRAD! 😃 ...it is my birthday today, and you have given me the best gift so far. I've been working on this for days.

Can you legally put the

<?php

[COLOR=DarkRed]$words = './swordlistIII.txt';[/COLOR]
//$domains = './domains.txt';

[COLOR=DarkRed]$wordlist = file_get_contents($words);[/COLOR]
//$dom = file_get_contents($domains);

// Provides: replaces keywords with hyperlinks

$filename = "./articles.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$articles = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

//$wordlist = array("wedding", "bullshit");
//$replacement = array("WEDDING", "CACA");
$dom = "domain.com";

$replace_with = array();
[COLOR=DarkRed]foreach( $wordlist as $elt ){[/COLOR]
$replace_with[] =  '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $elt . '</a>';
}

$newphrase = (str_replace($wordlist, $replace_with, $articles));

//$newphrase = str_replace($wordlist, $replacement, $articles);
//$newphrase = (str_replace($wordlist, '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $replacement . '</a>', $articles));

//print $articles;
print $newphrase;

//print $wordlist;
//print $dom;          


?>

What I'm actually wanting to do is just find the words then create hyperlinks with them. I don't want to have to keep a separate replace array in addtion to the search array.

The changes above however don't work when I try loading the wordlist file into an array

[konrad]

file_get_contents() returns string, not an array. What you can do is getting $wordlist with file() function ( $wordlist = file($words); ). In this case, $words file must contain words you want to replace (separated by new line) f.e.
word1
word2
some sentence to replace
.
.
.

Happy Birthday!!!
Hope you'll get better gift then my help 🙂

[zerobreach_com]

If I do a file()

like so:

$words = './words.txt';

$wordlist = file($words);

I am getting "Array" for that too...

Do I have to do this for the wordlist array too?

$replace_with = array();
foreach( $wordlist as $elt ){
$replace_with[] = '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $elt . '</a>';
}

Excuse my Array greeness :o

OK - do I have to explode them or am I way off base?

[konrad]

According to manual, file() function is

identical to file_get_contents(), except that file() returns the file in an array. Each element of the array corresponds to a line in the file, with the newline still attached.

Here is ready to use script:

<?php

$words = './words.txt';

$wordlist = file($words);
$filename = "./articles.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$articles = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
$dom = "domain.com";

$how_many = count($wordlist)-1;
for($i=0; $i<$how_many; $i++){
	$wordlist[$i] = substr(nl2br($wordlist[$i]), 0, -8); // replacing newlines
}

$replace_with = array();
foreach( $wordlist as $elt){
$replace_with[] =  '<a href="http://' . $dom . '">' . $elt . '</a>';
}

echo str_replace($wordlist, $replace_with, $articles);
?>

[zerobreach_com]

Many Many Many Thx!

It works! one thing though, it looks like its chopping off the last letter in all the keywords its looking for.

I am stairing hard at your code trying to make sense of it, I have however been up for 24 hours and going cross eyed. :eek:

Is it the limiter value that needs to be played with?

YES!!! it is... it needs to be a -7 not -8... works like a charm!

[zerobreach_com]

Doah! I spoke too soon! It's not handling lines in the keyword list that are more than one word.

wedding <--yes
brides <--yes
bridal showers <--no

It seems to be skipping over any lines that are more than one word.

[zerobreach_com]

User error... it was a file formating issue. Blank line at end of word file and maybe no \n at end of last line in file.

[konrad]

<?php

$words = './words.txt';

$wordlist = file($words);

$how_many = count($wordlist)-1;
for($i=0; $i<$how_many; $i++){
    $wordlist[$i] = substr(nl2br($wordlist[$i]), 0, -6); // replacing newlines
}
echo implode(';',$wordlist); 

Everything works fine on my server (under windows). Probably your system adds newlines with diffrent size. Try to substring $wordlist[] with -7, -6, ... until you get list of words separated by semicolon (no newlines, spaces, etc. in HTML source).

Hope this works.

[zerobreach_com]

It's working great konrad, many thanks for all your help! (-7) is the right combination ;-)