save array values

[willg]

Hi,

 

I have an array with the following structure

 

1 => Title: etc etc, Authors: etc etc, Filename: etc etc

2 => Title: etc etc, Authors: etc etc, Filename: etc etc

3 => Title: etc etc, Authors: etc etc, Filename: etc etc

4 => Title: etc etc, Authors: etc etc, Filename: etc etc

5 => Title: etc etc, Authors: etc etc, Filename: etc etc

 

I have been trying (without success) to save each value as a text file with the title and authors as the content and the filename as the filename. I can easily isolate the needed texts with regex (so don't waste your time on that part) but am struggling with the "foreach" PHP part. Please help (!)

 

Thanks for reading,

 

Will

[BlueSkyIS]

foreach ($somearray AS $someinfo) {

  echo $someinfo; // This will be the entire string, Title: etc etc, Authors: etc etc, Filename: etc etc

}

[willg]

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

How do the "fopen", "fwrite" and "fclose" statments fit in to the "foreach" statement?

 

e.g. do they go inside or outside? (however I try it doesn't work)

[marcus]

If you're opening one file, outside, fwrite > inside.

[BlueSkyIS]

Not one file. one file for each title.

 

here is how i might do it:

 

foreach ($somearray AS $someinfo) {

   $title_str = howeveryouregettingthetitle();

   $author_str = howeveryouregettingtheauthor();

   $filename = howeveryouregettingthefilename();

 

   $fh = fopen("/path/to/$filename", "w") or die("fopen failed");

   fwrite($fh, "$title_str $author_str");

   fclose($fh);

}

[willg]

Hi,

 

The code that I tried (putting in your code as well) is below. I'm still going wrong somewhere unfortunately. The below code produced one text file (instead of many) with the correct content for that particular value but no filename (it was just ".txt"). Any ideas?

 

foreach ($replace10 as $key => $val)
{
$matchtitle = preg_match("@TITLE\:\s(.*?)\r\n@", $val, $outtitle);
$title = preg_replace("@TITLE\:\s@", "", $outtitle[0]);
$matchauthors = preg_match("@AUTHORS\:\s(.*?)\r\n@", $val, $outauthors);
$authors = preg_replace("@AUTHORS\:\s@", "", $outauthors[0]);
$matchcitation = preg_match("@CITATION\:\s(.*?)\r\n@", $val, $outcitation);
$citation = preg_replace("@CITATION\:\s@", "", $outcitation[0]);
$matchfile = preg_match_all("@FILE\:\s(.*?)\r\n@", $val, $outFILE);
$file = preg_replace("@FILE\:\s@", "", $outFILE[0]);

$desccontent = '<title>'.$title.' ('.$citation.') - '.$publisher.'</title>
<meta name="description" content="'.$authors.'">';

$fh = fopen("$file.txt", "w") or die("fopen failed");
    fwrite($fh, "$desccontent");
    fclose($fh);
}

[willg]

Hello PHP ppl!

 

Well, I got a solution:

 

foreach ($combined as $key => $val)
{
file_put_contents($key, $val);
}

 

Note that you have to configure your array to have the filename as the key and the file contents as the value.