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PHP Write to file with variable in that file as the resulting NEW file name.

I have a complete coded php page with. This also on it.

Except the metadata formatting The keyword are not the same on any pages.

Page 1 example

<meta name="keyword" content=SMITH, JOHN, DOE, PLAIN, JAIN, MAIN, JOE, SOMEONE, WILLIAMS">

Page 2 example

<meta name="keyword" content=Mike Bill, Paul, Jenn, Ted">

What I am attempting to do is have PHP process the page and write it to a NEW TEXT file.
NAMING THE NEW FILE using the First 3 Meta Keywords in that file..

Basically Run a page thru PHP and having the result be a txt file created and named using that files meta KEywords.
The two examples above would include the ordinal page code and be names as so.
smith-john-doe.txt
mike-bill-paul.txt

The commas and space parsed into hyphens and no space.

I have attempted to solve this myself with some good results.
But not what I needed.

$myFile = "KEYWORDS.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "HELP";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

The pages if needed can have the new code I anticipate as the ONLY PHP script on that page.

The page is processed via PHP using this code.

Thank you agian Ray_Paseur

https://www.experts-exchange.com/codeSnippetPopup.jsp?csid=348721

REGARDS AND thank you.

Selvol

DerkArts

I'm not sure about the rest of your post and what your saying. But what you need is this.

I havent tested this but it should work

//Loop over files, in whatever way you like
foreach($fileArray as $fileName){
	$str = file_get_contents($fileName);
	preg_match('%<meta\sname="keyword"\scontent="([^"]*)"%/i',$str,$matchArray);
	$namesArray = explode(",",$matchArray[1]);
	$file = fopen($namesArray[0].$namesArray[1].$namesArray[3].".txt","w+");
	fwrite($file,$str);
	fclose($file);
	
}

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James Williams

ASKER

Apologies for any confusion with the question. My fault The script was not working.
THank you thought
All I am trying to do is.
Have PHP process a file and make a copy with a name generated by the Keywords of the page it just processed.
____
Folder dir
a.php
Folder after file processed with php
Folder dir
a.php manuel-madsen-michael.php
manuel-madsen-michael.php is spanwed form a.php
But PHP used "a.php" Keywords to name the spawned file.

a.php
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content=" MANUEL,MADSEN, MICHAEL,HELMAN, AYERS, MILTON,NICOSIA, NANCY LYNN" />
...
 
...</html>
 
manuel-madsen-michael.php
 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content=" MANUEL,MADSEN, MICHAEL,HELMAN, AYERS, MILTON,NICOSIA, NANCY LYNN" />
...
 
...</html>

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James Williams

ASKER

Yes, I never thought your answer was wrong. And I thank you again.
I did get the script to work.
I had to change the preg_match line to work with my inconstancy plagued HTML.
Only thing is, and I most likely need to figure it out is how to get the saved file into LOwercase and add hyphens
between the arrays in the name.
NO NEED to tell me how to do the LOWER CASE and hyphens.
As I actually want to learn PHP and not have some extremely considerate person such as yourself do everything for me.
I really appreciate the time you spent on the question. And I thank you.

Regards
Selvol

<?php
$str = file_get_contents("a.php");
        preg_match('%<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"([^"]*)"%i',$str,$matchArray);
        $namesArray = explode(",",$matchArray[1]);
        $file = fopen($namesArray[0].$namesArray[1].$namesArray[3].".txt","w+");
        fwrite($file,$str);
        fclose($file);
?>

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