Question

I am trying to search through a URL for a matching string, but the below code snippet doesn’t seem to work.

<?php

$url = "http://www.drudgereport.com";

$search = "a";
$file = file($url);

if (in_array($search,$file)) {
    echo "Success!";
} else {
    echo "Can't find word.";
}

?>

Answer 1

If you are just searching for an occurrence of a string on the page, you can use

$str = file_get_contents($url);
if (strpos($str, $search) !== false) {
    echo 'Success!';
} else {
    echo 'Fail';
}