I have a php script getting all folders in a posts folder and making them into a list.
I have a $postinfo_str variable assigned to a json file for each folder which I am using to store post date and category/tag info etc in.
I also have a $pagetitle variable assigned to a title.php include file for each folder. So say I am on a "June 2018" archive page, the text in that file will be "June 2018". If I am on say a "Tutorials" category page, that will be the text in the title.php.
In the json file, I have:
{
"Arraysortdate": "YYYYMMDD",
"Month": "Month YYYY",
"Category": ["cat1", "cat2", "etc"]
}
I am ordering the array newest to oldest using krsort with Arraysortdate as key.
How do I filter the array using $pagetitle as input, finding if there is a match in $postinfo_str, and if there isn't, remove that folder from the array?
All I can seem to find regarding array sorting is where the info in the $pageinfo_str is basically the array and so by that, the $title is the input and the output is the matching text from the $postinfo_str, whereas I want the output to be the folders that only have the matching text in the $postinfo_str to what the input ($pagetitle) is.
Here is my code I have.. Keep in mind this is flat file, I do not want a database to achieve this. See comments if you want an explaination.
<?php
$BASE_PATH = '/path/to/public_html';
// initial array containing the dirs
$dirs = glob($BASE_PATH.'/testblog/*/posts/*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);
// new array with date as key
$dirinfo_arr = [];
foreach ($dirs as $cdir) {
// get current page title from file
$pagetitle = file_get_contents("includes/title.php");
// get date & post info from file
$dirinfo_str = file_get_contents("$cdir/includes/post-info.json");
$dirinfo = json_decode($dirinfo_str, TRUE);
// add current directory to the info array
$dirinfo['dir'] = $cdir;
// add current dir to new array where date is the key
$dirinfo_arr[$dirinfo['Arraysortdate']] = $dirinfo;
}
// now we sort the new array
krsort($dirinfo_arr);
foreach($dirinfo_arr as $key=>$dir) {
$dirpath = $dir['dir'];
$dirpath = str_replace('/path/to/public_html/', '', $dirpath);
?>
<!--HTML HERE SUCH AS--!>
<a href="<?=$dirpath;?>"> TEXT </a><br>
<?php
};
?>