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hi, im trying to search data through an array and then display the macthes found
please help
[PHP]
#!/usr/bin/php
<HTML> <BODY>
<?
#reads a text file outputs it to screen
$filename = "cdlist.txt";
$filepointer = fopen($filename,"r"); // open for read
$cdArray = file ($filename);
if (!(isset($_POST['usersearch']))) {exit;}
$search = $_POST['usersearch'];
print "User typed in $search <br>";
for ($newcount = 0; $newcount < count ($cdArray); $newcount++)
{
//$newstring = getitem ($search,0);
$newaline = $cdArray [$newcount];
$newstring = getitem ($search,0);
//print "<pre>";
//print_r ($cdArray);
//print "</pre>";
print $cdArray[1][7];
// if ($newstring == $cdArray[0][3]
// { print "$newaline \n $newastring <br>";}
}
exit;
fclose ($filepointer);
function getitem ($text, $spaceNmber)
{
return substr ($text, $spaceNumber, $spaceNumber + 2);
}
if (!($filepointer = fopen($filename,"r"))) { exit; }
?>
</body></html>
[/PHP]
text file data....
Artist, Title, Year, Price, StockLevel
Usher, The Masterpiece, 2007, 9.99, 1
snoop, dog pound, 2000, 10.99, 4
Snoop Dogg, Doggystyle, 1993,12.99, 6
Dr. Dre, 2001, 1999, 12.99, 10
