(HELP) PHP to get random line from text file for video embed

[Matt1972]

This is a section of my code that goes and gets videos from any video site. What I’m having issues with is having it post a random title, that are all in a text file called titles.txt. What I’m wanting to accomplish is have my script go pull the video embed code, the duration, the tags, etc. Which all works fine until I get to the title part where it pulls locally from the server from the text file. I'm not an advance programmer so not sure if I am even approaching this correct way. Here is the code I have that is responsible for putting the title in. I appreciate your help.

$video = array(
‘user_id’ => $this->user_id,
‘status’ => $this->status,
‘site’ => ‘my site’,
‘id’ => ‘’,
‘embeddable’ => true,
‘url’ => ‘’,
‘titles’ => ‘’,
‘title’ => ‘’,
‘description’ => ‘’,
‘tags’ => ‘’,
‘category’ => ‘’,
‘thumbs’ => array(),
‘duration’ => 0,
‘embed’ => ‘’
);

function random_title ()
{
$titles = file (“titles.txt”, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$num = rand (0, intval (count ($titles) / 3)) * 3;
return ucwords($titles[$num]);
}

//Title
if(preg_match(’/title="(.*?)"/’, $match, $matches_title)) {
$video[‘title’] = random_title(). ’ - My site name’;
} else {
$this->errors[] = ‘Failed to get video title for ‘.$video[‘url’].’!’;
if (!$this->debug) continue;
else $debug_e[] = ‘TITLE’;
}

 

[Barand]

Perhaps you could explain the rationale behind this method for getting the title...

$num = rand (0, intval (count ($titles) / 3)) * 3

 

[Matt1972]

4 minutes ago, Barand said:

Perhaps you could explain the rationale behind this method for getting the title...

$num = rand (0, intval (count ($titles) / 3)) * 3

 

@Barand To be honest I had found that code online that I used with a Youtube script. I'm not even sure if that is the correct way to do it. I'm learning php so really kinda just fumbling through this.

[Barand]

It isn't a sound method. Suppose you have 3 titles. 

intval(count($titles)/3) = 1, so you now get a random integer between 0 and 1 which you multiply by 3. Therefore $num will be 0 or 3. The titles are indexed 0, 1 and 2. IE index 3 doesn't exist. See the problem?

Use array_rand()

$random_title = $titles[array_rand($titles)];

 

[Matt1972]

@Barand So are you saying replace this line:

$num = rand (0, intval (count ($titles) / 3)) * 3;

With this line:

$random_title = $titles[array_rand($titles)];

So I would end up with this:

function random_title ()
{
$titles = file (“titles.txt”, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$random_title = $titles[array_rand($titles)];
return ucwords($titles[$num]);
}

I tried to run my script with that but it still does not work. Below is the entire php file for this script.

<?php
class MEmbed_xvideos
{
	public $url;
	public $user_id;
	public $category;
	public $status;
	public $video;
	public $errors	= array();
	public $debug_e = array();
	public $debug_w = array();
	public $message;
	private $overflow = 500;
	public $video_already	= 0;
	public $video_added	= 0;
	public $debug;
	
	public function __construct($url, $user_id, $category, $status, $debug) {
		$this->url		= $url;
		$this->user_id	= $user_id;
		$this->category	= $category;
		$this->status	= $status;
		$this->debug	= $debug;
	}
	
	public function get_videos() {
		$count  = 0;
		$curl	= new VCurl();
        $html   = clean_html($curl->saveToString($this->url));		
		if ($html) {
			if (preg_match_all('/<div id="video_(.*?)<\/p><\/div>/', $html, $matches)) {
				foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {

					unset($debug_e);
					unset($debug_w);				
                    ++$count;
                    if ($count > $this->overflow) {
                        $this->errors[] = 'Overflow reached (500)! Aborting!';
                        return false;
                    }
					
					$video  = array(
						'user_id'	  => $this->user_id,
						'status'	  => $this->status,						
						'site'        => 'xvideos',
						'id'		  => '',
						'embeddable'  => true,						
						'url'         => '',
						'titles'      => '',
						'title'       => '',
						'description' => '',
						'tags'        => '',
						'category'    => '',
						'thumbs'      => array(),
						'duration'    => 0,
						'embed'       => ''	
                    );
					
function random_title ()
{
$titles = file (“titles.txt”, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$random_title = $titles[array_rand($titles)];
return ucwords($titles[$num]);
}
					
					//Video ID
					if (preg_match('/id="video_(.*?)"/', $match, $matches_id)) {
						$video['id'] = trim($matches_id[1]);
					} else {
						if (!$this->debug) continue;
						else $debug_e[] = 'ID';
					}
					
					//Embed Code
					$video['embed'] = '<iframe src="https://www.videosite.com/embedframe/' . $video['id'] . '" frameborder=0 width=' . E_WIDTH . ' height=' . E_HEIGHT . ' scrolling=no style="background-color:#000"></iframe>';					
					if (already_added($video['embed'])) {
						++$this->video_already;
						continue;
					}

					//URL
					if(preg_match('/<a href="(.*?)"/', $match, $matches_url)) {
						$video['url'] = "http://www.videosite.com" . trim($matches_url[1]);
					} else {
						$this->errors[]	= 'Failed to get video URL for ID: '.$video['id'].'!';
						if (!$this->debug) continue;
						else $debug_e[] = 'URL';
					}
					
					//Title
					if(preg_match('/title="(.*?)"/', $match, $matches_title, $random_title)) {
						$video['title']	= $random_title(). ’ - My site name’;
					} else {
						$this->errors[]	= 'Failed to get video title for '.$video['url'].'!';
						if (!$this->debug) continue;
						else $debug_e[] = 'TITLE';
					}
					
					//Duration
					if(preg_match('/"duration">(.*?)</', $match, $matches_duration)) {
						$duration = str_replace(' min',':', $matches_duration[1]);
						$duration = str_replace(' sec','', $duration);
						if (strpos($duration, ':') !== false) {
							$duration = trim($duration, ':');
							if (strpos($duration, ':') !== false) {
								$video['duration'] = duration_to_seconds($duration);
							} else {
								$video['duration'] = duration_to_seconds($duration.':00');						
							}
						} else {
							$video['duration'] = duration_to_seconds('00:'.$duration);
						}							
                    } else {
						$this->errors[]	= 'Failed to get video duration for '.$video['url'].'!';
						if (!$this->debug) continue;
						else $debug_e[] = 'DURATION';		
					}
					
					//Thumbnails
					if (preg_match('/data-src="(.*?)"/', $match, $matches_thumb)) {
						$thumb_url       = $matches_thumb[1];
						$thumb_url       = str_replace('.jpg', '', $thumb_url);
						$thumb_url       = substr($thumb_url, 0, strrpos($thumb_url, '.'));
						for ($i=1;$i<=20;$i++) {
							$video['thumbs'][] = $thumb_url.'.' . $i . '.jpg';
						}			
                    } else {
						$this->errors[]	= 'Failed to get video thumbnails for '.$video['url'].'!';
						if (!$this->debug) continue;
						else $debug_e[] = 'THUMBS';	
					}

					//Get Video Page
					$html_video	= clean_html($curl->saveToString($video['url']));
					
					//Categories
					$video['category'] = '';
					
					//Tags
					if (preg_match_all('/<a href="\/tags\/(.*?)">(.*?)<\/a>/', $html_video, $matches_tags)) {
						foreach ($matches_tags[2] as $k => $v) {
							if ($matches_tags[1][$k] != '') {
								$video['tags'] = $video['tags'] . str_replace(' ','-',$v) . ' ';
							}
						}
						$video['tags'] = trim(strtolower($video['tags']));

					} else {
						$debug_w[] = 'TAGS';
					}

					//Check Embeddable Content
					if (!strpos($html_video, 'Embed</span>')) {
						$video['embeddable'] = false;
						$debug_w[] = 'EMBEDDABLE';
						if (end($matches[0]) !== $match) continue;
					}	
					
					//Debug Mode
					if ($this->debug) {
						echo "Match Content (". $count ."): <textarea style='width:100%' rows=10>".$match."</textarea><br>";
						if ($debug_e) echo "Errors: " . implode(', ',$debug_e) . "<br>";
						if ($debug_w) echo "Warnings: " . implode(', ',$debug_w) . "<br>";
						echo "<pre>";
						print_r($video);
						echo "</pre>";
						exit;
					}
					
					//Add Video
					if (add_video($video)) {
						++$this->video_added;
					} else {
						$this->errors[] = 'Failed to add '.$video['url'].'!';
					}					
					
				} //Foreach Loop - END
			} else {
				$this->errors[] = 'Failed to find embeddable videos on the specified page!';
			}
		} else {
			$this->errors[] = 'Failed to get html code for specified url!';
		}		
		if (!$this->errors) {
			return true;
		}
		return false;
	}
}
?>

 

[Barand]

Stop blindly copying and pasting. Apply a little thought to what the code is doing. You'll learn more that way.

function random_title ()
{
    $titles = file (“titles.txt”, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
    $random_title = $titles[array_rand($titles)];
    return ucwords($random_title);
}