Copying a Word and saving it as a Variable - php

Question

I am building an online spanish dictionary. I obtain the definitions legally from another site. For specific words the user may search for, a list of suggestions comes up.
If you click on any of those suggested words, error page pops up: http://verbum.xtrweb.com/verbumpost.php?word=boedo&word0=hola . How can I make those listed words run through the code pasted below: (1) retrieve definition (2) change style.
I know that a unique URL exists for every one of those suggested words (inspect element). If you paste together that code with the original site's URL parameters, you get what I need.:
"http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/search?id=AVNYdnea1DXX2EH9E2mb"
up to "srv/" belongs to site
the rest is from the specific word (in this case, the first suggested, "bordar"
The Process:
<?php
$words = array('word','word0','word1','word2','word3','word4','word5','word6','word7','word7','word9',
'word10','word11','word12',
'word13','word14','word15');
function url_decode($string){
return urldecode(utf8_decode($string));
}
// we'll use this later on for loading the files.
$baseUrl = 'http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/search?val=';
// string to replace in the head.
$cssReplace = <<<EOT
<style type="text/css">
//blabla
</style>
</head>
EOT;
// string to remove in the document.
$spanRemove = '<span class="f"><b>.</b></span>';
$styleRemove =
// use for printing out the result ID.
$resultIndex = 0;
// loop through the words we defined above
// load the respective file, and print it out.
foreach($words as $word) {
// check if the request with
// the given word exists. If not,
// continue to the next word
if(!isset($_REQUEST[$word]))
continue;
// load the contents of the base url and requested word.
$contents = file_get_contents($baseUrl . urldecode(utf8_decode($_REQUEST[$word])));
// replace the data defined above.
$contents = str_replace('</head>', $cssReplace, $contents);
$contents = str_replace($spanRemove,"", $contents);
$data = preg_replace('/(search?[\d\w]+)/','http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/\1', $data);
// print out the result with the result index.
// ++$resultIndex simply returns the value of
// $resultIndex after adding one to it.
echo "<div id='results' style='
//bla bla
}
?>

Answer 1

I don't think I understand your question, but I do see that you are calling preg_replace on an uninitialized variable - $data.
Maybe you want this instead?
$data = preg_replace('/(search?[\d\w]+)/','http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/\1', $contents);
Like I said, I don't fully understand your question, but I do see that as a potential problem.
EDIT:
From your comment, it looks like you want to append the href of the link being clicked to a base url and request that page's data. Can you use jQuery? Like this:
var baseUrl = "http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/"; // base url
//click function that binds to all anchors within a list item within a ul. in order
//to get more precise, you may need to add some classes or ids
$('ul li a').click(function(){
var src = $(this).prop('href'); //this grabs the href property of the anchor
$(this).find('span').css('propery', 'change to this'); //change css property of span child of this anchor
//or if you want to add a class with styles to the element
$(this).find('span').addClass('class name');
//ajax request to get page data
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: baseUrl+src //appending the query to the base url
}).done(function(data){
//append the returned html to a div, or any element you desire
$('#myelement').append(data);
});
});
Hope this helps. If you need any help with jQuery just let me know.