Data Mining and Search in PHP

[troylamb]

I am new to PHP, but I want to write a little search tool in PHP for a website and I am having a ton of trouble with it.  I don't understand the syntax enough or know of useful functions to call.  The problem: I have a $title character which I want to scan and pick up the name in the title from a list of names I have in an array.  My logic is below.  Thanks in advance!

 

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$title = "some crazy title that has Bob in it that I am searching through";

$mylist = array("id1" => "Chis Pete",

                    "id2" => "Bob Clinton",

                    "id3" => "George Harris");

 

for ($mylist as $id => $name){

    $myid = array_search($name,$title);

}

 

echo "$myid is the id number which has the name in the title!"

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[br0ken]

I think the function strpos() could be of use to you. Sorry I can't be of more help but it's late and I'm just about to log off for the night!