Problem reading file into PHP

[lifeisrisky]

I have 4 websites

http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/101395

http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/169/16000

http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/101396

http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/169/16001

 

I am trying to write a program that will open each webpage one at a time, look for a unique word such as 'FREE' and if it is found the write the URL to a file, if not then no output and the next webpage is opened. I know this word exists only on one of the pages above (http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/101396).

 

When http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/101396 appears last in the list located in source.txt the programs WORKS.

When http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/101396 appears in any other position such as first, or second, the program does NOT work.

 

My head is sore from banging against my desk. Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

<?php

 

$file_source = fopen("source.txt", "r");

$file_target = fopen("targets.txt", "w");

 

while (!feof($file_source) ) {

$url = fgets($file_source);

 

echo '<br>'.$url;

 

$raw_text = file_get_contents($url);

 

mb_regex_encoding( "utf-8" );

$words = mb_split( ' +', $raw_text );

 

foreach ($words as $uniques) {

echo $uniques;

  if ($uniques == 'FREE') {

  fwrite($file_target, $url);

 

  }

}

 

}

 

?>

 

 

[darth_tater]

Can you post working and non working copies of your text files? 

 

also, USE THE

 tags!!!! it is very difficult to read your code w/o them!

 

I don't have a whole lot of experience when it comes to dealing with files, but $raw_text = file_get_contents($url) should work....

 

add in some debugging statements as each variable is allocated and filled so you know if you're allocating them and filling them correctly.