Ignoring keywords

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm trying to write a descripton, if the description contains [any of these words] ignore:

 

<?php
                $ignoreWords = array(
                    "Commission",
                    "commission",
                    "affiliate",
                    "Affiliate",
                    "affiliates",
                    "Affiliates",
                    "Conversion",
                    "conversion",
                    "conversions",
                    "Conversions",
                    "Earn",
                    "earn"
                );
                
                
                if (in_array($pdcD, $ignoreWords))
                {
                
                  $newDescription = "For further information please click <b><a href=\"$url\" target=\"_blank\">here</a></b>.";

                } else {
                
                  $newDescription = $pdcD;
                
                }
?>

 

If tghe description contains any of those words do the first option else do the second but when testing it doesn't work it executes the second option.

 

any help would be appreciated

 

thanks guys

 

Graham

[Alex]

You can create a custom function to do this, something like this:

 

function strpos_many($haystack, $needle) {
foreach($needle as $val) {
	if(strpos($haystack, $val) !== false) {
		return true;
	}
}
return false;
}

 

What this does is check to see if any of the words in the array are found in the string. If one is, it returns true. If none are, it returns false.

 

strpos

 

Then use it like this:

 

if(strpos_many($pdcD, $ignoreWords)) {
$newDescription = "For further information please click <b><a href=\"$url\" target=\"_blank\">here</a></b>.";
} else {
$newDescription = $pdcD;
}

[graham23s]

Ah thank you Alex that worked perfectly

 

Graham