Question

Beginner to PHP here. I’m designing a small website for an assignment with the goal of matching qualified job seekers with companies. The person looking for a job will fill out a form with their name, phone number, job they are looking for, college major, and the hours they wish to work. This information will be appended to a text file called “applicants.txt”. Companies will fill out the same fields on a seperate page, except with what they are looking for in an employee as oppose to what they are looking for in a job. This information will be appended to a different text file called “jobOpenings.txt”. I have done all of this successfully. What I am now struggling with is writing the PHP code to see if the information submitted by the job seeker matches the information submitted by the company.

Answer 1

For the problem that you posted, your error is in:
list($companyEmployer, $jobEmployer, $majorEmployer, $hoursEmployer) = explode("\t", $line);
You are trying to explode the data based on ‘tabs’, while when you save the data, you separate the entries by comma’s. Change explode("\t", $line) to explode(",", $line) to correctly read the data in to your variables.