Foreach glob loop not going through all files in PHP - php

Question

I'm currently setting up a search engine and has been experiencing some weird stuff with this loop, and it seams like it doesn't go through all the 200 000 files.
I can see the file on the server, but when I search for it, it doesn't show up. Other searches, it works just fine.
The folders it's searching through have another layer of folders, and all the files are only stored on the last layer of folders. so I'm searching like this:
glob('database/*/*/*.txt')
Here is my code:
if (isset($_GET['q'])){
$search = $_GET['q'];
}else{die;}
$files = array();
foreach (glob('database/*/*/*.txt', GLOB_NOCHECK) as $path) {
$title = basename($path, ".txt").PHP_EOL;
if(strripos($title,$search) != false){
array_push( $files, $path );
echo $title . '<br>';
echo $path . '<br>';
}
}
Error log shows nothing and access log gives 200 response.
Is it any other ways to search files in folders? or is it something that I'm not seeing?

Answer 1

As I understand it - all your titles are fetched into the foreach-loop, but they are not included in the array $files. Therefore it would make sense to dig into the if statement:
if(strripos($title,$search) != false){
The manual from php.net states:
Warning This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a
non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE. Please read the section on
Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the
return value of this function.
Because you should use === to check equal state, you should use !== (and not !=) to state not equal. Therefore the first thing I would test would be:
if(strripos($title,$search) !== false){
If it's still the same issue I would try to remove PHP_EOL from the line:
$title = basename($path, ".txt").PHP_EOL;
and have it like this instead:
$title = basename($path, ".txt");
I'm not sure why you're are using PHP_EOL here, but I don't think it is necessary? (not sure though - someone - tell me if I'm wrong).
So the code that would be left is this:
foreach (glob('database/*/*/*.txt', GLOB_NOCHECK) as $path) {
$title = basename($path, ".txt");
if(strripos($title,$search) !== false){
array_push( $files, $path );
echo $title . '<br>';
echo $path . '<br>';
}
}