Parsephr.php
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#!/usr/bin/php -w <? //$fname = $argv[1];//still working to make this run from command line args $fname = '4bip/v/leasingtherain.txt'; $lines = file($fname)or die("yo can't open file \n"); $outFile = "4bip/v/Vocabltr.txt"; $fh = fopen($outFile, 'w') or die("can't open file"); // Loop through $lines array, lookup meta description tag for def of each $wrd. foreach ($lines as $line_num => $phrase) { $phrase=preg_replace( '/\r\n/', '', substr(trim($phrase),1) );//get rid of the line return $inbo=preg_match('/<b>.*?<\/b>/',$phrase,$matches);//get what in bold tags $sections=split("<[/]?b>", $matches[0]);//split before/in/after bold tag $wrd = $sections[1];//gets you whats between tags $tags = get_meta_tags('http://www.answers.com/'.$wrd);//go out on internet $thedef = $tags['description']."\n";//pick out the description tag and keep the string $thewords = explode(" ", $thedef);//explode it $thewords[0]="";//get rid of the first word(the defined word) $defphrase = implode(" ",$thewords)."\n";//put the string back together w/o it //ex: $phrase="n. , pl. -ties . The state or quality of being modern"; $inbo=preg_match('/(^.*?)[A-Z]/',$defphrase,$matches);//everything uptoincl first capital $string = $matches[0]."\n"; $pos = trim(substr($string, 0, -2));//get rid of last character $isdef=preg_match('/[A-Z].*/',$defphrase,$justdef); $def = $justdef[0]; $def=preg_replace( '/\r\n/', '', trim($def) );//get rid of the line return $defstr = ";".$wrd . ": ''" . $pos ."'' ". $def . ": ''" . $phrase ."''\n"; echo $defstr; fwrite($fh, $defstr); }