Search String and Return Line PHP - php

Question

I'm trying to search a PHP file for a string and when that string is found I want to return the whole LINE that the string is on. Here is my example code. I'm thinking I would have to use explode but cannot figure that out.
$searchterm = $_GET['q'];
$homepage = file_get_contents('forms.php');
if(strpos($homepage, "$searchterm") !== false)
{
echo "FOUND";
//OUTPUT THE LINE
}else{
echo "NOTFOUND";
}

Answer 1

Just read the whole file as array of lines using file function.
function getLineWithString($fileName, $str) {
$lines = file($fileName);
foreach ($lines as $lineNumber => $line) {
if (strpos($line, $str) !== false) {
return $line;
}
}
return -1;
}

Answer 2

You can use fgets() function to get the line number.
Something like :
$handle = fopen("forms.php", "r");
$found = false;
if ($handle)
{
$countline = 0;
while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false)
{
if (strpos($buffer, "$searchterm") !== false)
{
echo "Found on line " . $countline + 1 . "\n";
$found = true;
}
$countline++;
}
if (!$found)
echo "$searchterm not found\n";
fclose($handle);
}
If you still want to use file_get_contents(), then do something like :
$homepage = file_get_contents("forms.php");
$exploded_page = explode("\n", $homepage);
$found = false;
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($exploded_page); ++$i)
{
if (strpos($buffer, "$searchterm") !== false)
{
echo "Found on line " . $countline + 1 . "\n";
$found = true;
}
}
if (!$found)
echo "$searchterm not found\n";

Answer 3

If you use file rather than file_get_contents you can loop through an array line by line searching for the text and then return that element of the array.
PHP file documentation

Answer 4

You want to use the fgets function to pull an individual line out and then search for the
<?PHP
$searchterm = $_GET['q'];
$file_pointer = fopen('forms.php');
while ( ($homepage = fgets($file_pointer)) !== false)
{
if(strpos($homepage, $searchterm) !== false)
{
echo "FOUND";
//OUTPUT THE LINE
}else{
echo "NOTFOUND";
}
}
fclose($file_pointer)

Answer 5

Here is an answered question about using regular expressions for your task.
Get line number from preg_match_all()
Searching a file and returning the specified line numbers.