Code critique

[leke]

Hi, I hope this is still a relevant topic here. I don't have a lot of coding experience and haven't studied it a college -- I'm just self taught hobbyist. I was wondering what your opinion is of the way I have structured my code and solved what I needed to do.

 

Any tips or feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

<?php
$form_submission=$_POST["query"];
$lines = file('eo_dic.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES); 
preg_match_all('/[\w\'\ŝ\ĉ\ĵ\ŭ\ĥ\Ŝ\Ĉ\Ĵ\Ŭ\Ĥ]+|[,.;!"?-\s\\(\\)]/', $form_submission, $matches);

foreach ($matches[0] as $value){ 
  // Check if $value is a word or something else.
  if ($value == " " || $value == "," || $value == "." || $value == "(" || $value ==  ")" || $value == "!" || $value == "?" || $value == "-" || $value == ";" || $value == '"'){
    echo $value;
  }
  else { // $value is a word.
    $titleText = array(); // store results in array.
    foreach ($lines as $line){
      list($field1, $field2) = explode('=', $line);
      if (strcasecmp($field1, $value) == 0 || strcasecmp($field2, $value) == 0){ // Found string in DB.
        array_push($titleText, "$field1 = $field2"); // Store all finds in array before outputting.
      }
    }
    if (empty($titleText)) { // $value was not found -- array is empty.
      echo '<a name="translated" class="translated" title="Not found.">' . $value . '</a>';
    }
    else {
      $arrayOut = implode(" / ", $titleText); // output the results found in the search.
      echo '<a name="translated" class="translated" title="' . $arrayOut . '">' . $value . '</a>';
    }
  }
}
unset($value);
?>

 

[stevengreen22]

ello!

 

I'm a biot of a beginner as well but I;m sure theres a better way of dealign with the preg_match command.  you cna encapsulate most of it within[] - it think.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php