Checking if any assigned keywords exist in document title

PHP
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I am trying to detect if any keywords assigned to an article also exist in the title, with a goal of then removing that keyword from $keywords. Here is what I’ve come up with but it doesn’t work. Any thoughts of what I’m overlooking?

Thanks!

$title = "The Rash is Gone";
$keywords = "lavender, skin, rash, rashes";


// Remove any commas

$keywords 	= str_replace(',','',$keywords);



// Convert to lowercase

$title		= strtolower($title);
$keywords	= strtolower($keywords);


// Create arrays

$titleArray	= explode(" ", $title);
$keywordsArray	= explode(" ", $keywords);
$matches	= array();


$noMatches = true;

print ("Title: $title <br />");
print ("Keywords: $keywords <br />");


foreach ($keywordsArray as $individualKeyword) {

    if (preg_match("/\b$individualKeyword\b/i", $titleArray)) {
	    
	    array_push($matches,$individualKeyword);
	    $noMatches = false;
	    $wordCount++;
  	}
}


if (!$noMatches) {

    $wordList = implode(', ', $matches);
    $wordList = rtrim($wordList, ', ');

	if ($wordCount > 1) {
		
		print ("Matched words: $wordList");
		
	} else {
		
		print ("Matched word: $wordList");
	}

} else {
	
	print ("<p>No keywords were found in the title.</p>");
}
2

why not using array_intersect() (matches) or array_diff() (non-matches) when you’ve already broken it down into arrays?

ah, yes, and preg_match() works on strings, not arrays.

3

array_intersect is just what I needed. Thanks Dormilich!

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