Search words or string from webpage using PHP ?

• Pradeep Sheoran
• Date : 13 October, 2023
• Categories : PHP

To search words from webpages using PHP, you can use the following steps:

1. Define the search term and the URL of the page you want to search.
2. Use theandnbsp;file_get_contents()andnbsp;function to get the contents of the page as a string.
3. Use theandnbsp;strpos()andnbsp;function to check if the search term is present in the page contents.
4. If the search term is found, output a message indicating whether or not it was found on the page.

?php

$searchTerm = cat;
$pageUrl = https://www.google.com/;

$pageContents = file_get_contents($pageUrl);

if (strpos($pageContents, $searchTerm) !== false) {
    echo The search term was found on the page.;
} else {
    echo The search term was not found on the page.;
}

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