If I have this text file: ---keywords.txt banana grapes apple mango orange pear coconut strawberry --- ..and I want to see if any of those words are in a string: ie: If (banana or apple or orange or pear are contained in my text file) { $keyword = "the word that was found"; } for example: if apple was a line in the text file, then: $keyword = "apple"; //apple was found in the list and has become the $keyword also, if there are multiple keywords - just the first one found would do. ie: If both apple and pear were in the list then Keyword would become apple. I can find examples of how to check if a word is in a list online, but I can't find an example of how to check if a word is in a list and then make that word the value of a variable.
From the docs of: http://www.php.net//manual/en/function.fgets.php + the isset check: <?php // Items or item to look for $lookingFor = array( 'orange' => true, 'apple' => true, ); $keywordFound = false; // Open file $handle = fopen("keywords.txt", "r"); if ($handle) { // Get line while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) { // If line is found in array, output and stop looking if (isset($lookingFor[$buffer])) { $keywordFound = $buffer; break; } } if (!feof($handle)) { echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n"; } fclose($handle); } if ($keywordFound !== false) { echo echo "$keywordFound found in file"; } PHP: