culling meta data 1

[bccamp]

I've got external website meta data that I'm trying to cull and insert into my db to make searchable. I'm running into a few issues with array_unique and trim.
The metadata has duplication that I'm trying to explode and remove with:

$meta=(explode(",", $meta);
$uniquemeta=array_unique($meta);
then I put into a loop with while, count, and variable $a:

$meta3=trim($uniquemeta[$a]);
I keep getting a Undefined offset error at the duplications. Any help would be appreciated, or another direction if there is an easier one to strip quotes, url's, and random #'s.

 

[kenrbnsn]

Can you post your code between [red][ignore]

[/ignore][/red] tags?

Ken

 

[bccamp]

sorry

$meta=(explode(",", $meta);
$uniquemeta=array_unique($meta);
$cnt=count($uniquemeta);
$a=0;
while ($cnt>$a) {
   $meta3=trim($uniquemeta[$a]);
   echo "meta3";
   $a++;
}

I keep getting a Undefined offset error at the duplications on the line of trim. Any help would be appreciated, or another direction if there is an easier one to strip quotes, url's, and random #'s.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Silly question I guess but is the first line supposed to have 2 opening parentheses but only 1 closing one?



Trojan.

 

[bccamp]

typo, sorry.

 

[kenrbnsn]

Instead of writing the loop the way you did:

$cnt=count($uniquemeta);
$a=0;
while ($cnt>$a) {
   $meta3=trim($uniquemeta[$a]);
   echo "meta3";
   $a++;
}

Write it like:

for ($a=0;$a<count($uniquemeta);$a++) {
   $meta3=trim($uniquemeta[$a]);
   echo $meta3.'<br>';
}

See if that helps.

Ken