I need to check words in array variable, I need something like this:
$banned = array('word1','word2','word3','word4');
if (stristr($title, $banned) !== false) {
//$title contains a banned word
}else{
//$title not contains any word of $banned variable array
}
<?php
$banned = array('word1','word2','word3','word4');
$hit = false;
foreach ($banned as $banned_item)
{
if (strpos($title, $banned_item) !== false)
{
$hit = true;
break;
}
}
if ($hit)
{
// $title contains a banned word
}
else
{
//$title not contains any word of $banned variable array
}
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The code above is case-sensitive, if you want your code be case-insensitive, just change:
if (strpos($title, $banned_item) !== false)
to:
if (stristr($title, $banned_item) !== false)
Use in_array function of PHP
in_array($title, $banned)
Since you don't care about the return value, you probably want to use stripos. stripos is basically like stristr, but it just returns true or false if your string is contained in $title. stristr would match, then return
I would caution against using in_array, as some of the other answers here suggest, since it would only return true if $title exactly matches one of your banned words, rather than it being a long string that contains one of the banned words.
$banned = array('word1','word2','word3','word4');
$found = false;
foreach($banned as $ban) {
if( stripos($title, $ban) !== false ) {
$found = true;
break;
}
}
if( $found ) {
//$title contains a banned word
}else{
//$title not contains any word of $banned variable array
}
You want case insensitive search, so you need to loop through array and apply the function to every element:
<?php
$title = "text WORD3 text";
$banned = array('word1','word2','word3','word4');
$flag = 0;
foreach($banned as $word)
{
if (stristr($title, $word) !== false) {
$flag = 1;
break;//no need to loop further
}
}
if ($flag == 1)
{
print "title contains a banned word";
}
prints:
title contains a banned word