Change PHP array - php

Question

Hi I have built an array and in the final process of finishing the script.
I have been building a web crawler which scans specific links on sites specified. The crawler stores all the links in one page and then inserts them into another array (news_stories) with the links specified in them.
Now the way the new array is structured is like this.
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[title] => The Qlick
[description] => Qlick
[keywords] => Search Engine, Web, Sexy, Noah Smith
[link] => http://www.theqlick.com/qlickdates.php
)
)
And that is difficult for me to implode and insert into a mysql table. Now my code below uses functions to grab titles, descriptions etc for each link it finds and then inserts them into the new array if they match.
Is there anyway to get this to delete the Array() at the top of the array and just have the array which specifies the title, description etc.
I want the output to look like:
[0] => Array
(
[title] => The Qlick
[description] => Qlick
[keywords] => Search Engine, Web, Sexy, Noah Smith
[link] => http://www.theqlick.com/qlickdates.php
)
Any ideas?
$bbc_values = array('http://www.theqlick.com/festivalfreaks.php', 'http://www.theqlick.com/qlickdates.php');
$news_stories = array();
foreach ($links as $link) {
$item = array(
"title" => Titles($link),
"description" => getMetas($link),
"keywords" => getKeywords($link),
"link" => $link
);
if (empty($item["description"])) {
$item["description"] = getWord($link);
}
foreach($bbc_values as $bbc_value) {
// note the '===' . this is important
if(strpos($item['link'], $bbc_value) === 0) {
$news_stories[] = $item;
}
}
}
$data = '"' . implode('" , "', $news_stories) . '"';
$query =
//CNN algorithm
print_r($news_stories);

Answer 1

PHP foreach() is an iterator, intended to let your programming perform the same action on a collection of data. In the existing design, the *$news_stories* array can contain multiple individual "sub-arrays", with each such "sub-array" being the unit of data you want to insert into your data base.
When you get down to the part about creating queries, you can use something like this:
foreach ($news_stories as $story)
{
/* CREATE AND RUN QUERY USING DATA IN $story */
}
You can use *var_dump()* to look at the contents of a $story array. When you do that, it will probably make sense instantly. PHP foreach() does not care if you have one element or a hundred elements. If you have zero elements, it will not run the code inside the control structure.