Question

How would I scan a directory for a specific line of text and list all matching files with php?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I actually wrote a function for this a few days ago…

Here’s the base function that scans each file…

foreach (glob("<directory>/*.txt") as $search) {
    $contents = file_get_contents($search);
    if (!strpos($contents, "text")) continue;
    $matches[] = $search;
}

Not the most advanced way of doing it, my function is much longer but it also uses all functions from my various other classes, this is basically what it does though.