Match for a word in a text with the PHP script

[Gabriel9999]

I have an applications developed with PHP. I have a big text file where I want to match for a word but this can be change in the feature. How can I match a word in PHP?

[Dani]

I'm not sure what you mean by match a word. Do you mean tell if the word exists in the text file?

How big is the text file? Do you want to load it all into memory and then search it a bunch of times, or do you want to conserve memory and read from the file line by line, stopping if the word exists?

You can use $file = file_get_contents("path/to/file"); to load the contents of the text file into the $file variable.

You can use $lines_of_file_arr = file("path/to/file"); to load the contents of the text file into an array, with each line being an array element. You can then search the array for the specific words.

You can read a file line by line with a loop:

while(!feof($file))
  {
  $line_of_file =  fgets($file);
  }
fclose($file);

Within the loop, you would check to see if the line matches the word. If it does, you can break out of the while loop with break;.

Good luck!!

[samueltarcin999]

There are different functions and ways to match a word in PHP. Best way is using preg_match() function. In the following example we will search the forum word in the $bigtext content.
preg_match('/forum/',$bigtext)