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Evolution48
Evolution48

Reputation: 169

Laravel Framework - How do i search a specific string in a array?

My problem is that I have a huge array. In this array are the Browser, the user used to get on my website, but also bots and spiders.

It looks like this: Mozilla, Mozilla, Mozillabot, Mozilla, Unicornbot and so on.

I need to get every key in my array, that have 'bot' in it like mozillabot, unicornbot.
But I cant find something.

array_search doesn't work, array_keys too.

Does anyone know a solution in Laravel?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2476

Answers (4)

Alex Andrei
Alex Andrei

Reputation: 7283

You can use the array_where helper.

Along with the str_contains string helper like so

$array = ["Mozilla", "Mozilla", "Mozillabot", "Mozilla", "Unicornbot"];

$bots = array_where($array, function ($key, $value) {
    return str_contains(strtolower($value),array('bot'));
});

Or with the str_is string helper, which uses pattern matching, like this

$bots = array_where($array, function ($key, $value) {
    return str_is('*bot*',strtolower($value));
});

The check is done against lowercase strings to avoid variations on "Bot", "BOT" and so on.

Upvotes: 0

Karan
Karan

Reputation: 2112

You can use laravel helper functions

$array = ['Mozilla', 'Mozilla', 'Mozillabot', 'Mozilla', 'Unicornbot'];    
$array = array_where($array, function($key, $value)
    {
        return str_contains($value, 'bot');
    });

Upvotes: 0

Bogdan
Bogdan

Reputation: 44526

You can use the Crawler Detect library which makes it really easy to identify bots/crawlers/spiders. It can be as simple as a couple of lines of code. Below is a snippet taken from the library's documentation:

use Jaybizzle\CrawlerDetect\CrawlerDetect;

$CrawlerDetect = new CrawlerDetect;

// Check the user agent of the current 'visitor'
if($CrawlerDetect->isCrawler()) {
    // true if crawler user agent detected
}

// Pass a user agent as a string
if($CrawlerDetect->isCrawler('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sosospider/2.0; +http://help.soso.com/webspider.htm)')) {
    // true if crawler user agent detected
}

Upvotes: 1

James Wallen-Jones
James Wallen-Jones

Reputation: 1288

You could do something like this...

$newArray = [];
foreach ($array as $value) {
    if (str_contains($value, ['bot', 'BOT', 'Bot'])) {
        $newArray[] = $value;
    }
}

This will cycle through the array and use the laravel str_contains function to determine wether or not the array value has the word 'bot' or variants in it and then add it to a new array.

Upvotes: 0

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