Help With PHP Preg_match to search

**xmanofsteel69** · Feb 25 '07, 10:38 PM

I'm trying to create a search function for my site and I can't ever seem to figure it out. If anybody could help, that would be awesome, because everything I try, I keep getting errors...

Here's my code so far.
[PHP]
<div style='display: none;'>
<html>
<head>
<title>The Movie List</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor = black>
</div>
<center>
<img src="moviep.jpg "><br>
<img name="image" src="image.gif" width="650" height="75" border="0" id="image" usemap="#m_imag e" alt="" /><map name="m_image" id="m_image">
<area shape="poly" coords="14,2,11 0,2,110,71,14,7 1,14,2" href="http://tjjam4.farvista .net/Home.php" alt="" />
<area shape="rect" coords="467,0,6 38,71" href="http://tjjam4.farvista .net/Suggest.php" alt="" />
<area shape="rect" coords="339,2,4 55,71" href="http://tjjam4.farvista .net/The_Movie_List_ Rev.php" alt="" />
<area shape="rect" coords="126,0,3 23,71" href="http://tjjam4.farvista .net/The_Movie_List. php" alt="" />
</map>
</center>
<form action="Search. php" method="post">
<table border="0" bgcolor=white cellspacing="5" >
<tr><td><font color=red>Searc h</font></td><td><input type="text" size="60" name="search"></td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp ;</td><td><input type="submit" value="Send"><f ont face="arial" size="1">   Click Send To Continue</font></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<font color = red>

<?php

$Movie = file_get_conten ts('Movies.txt' );
parse_str($Movi e);

function title_cmp($a, $b)
{
$a_cmp = preg_replace('/^(A|An|The) /', '', $a['Title']);
$b_cmp = preg_replace('/^(A|An|The) /', '', $b['Title']);

return strcmp($a_cmp, $b_cmp);
}

usort($Movie, 'title_cmp');

if($_POST['search'] =! '')
{
$search = $_POST['search'];

foreach($Movie as $key =>$val)
{
if(preg_match(s trtolower($sear ch), strtolower($Mov ie[$key][Title])));
{
echo $Movie[$key][Title].'<br>';
}
}

}

?>[/PHP]

The error I keep receiving is:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in E:\Tyson\wamp\w ww\jedit\Test1\ Search.php on line 49 #

And that repeats over and over again for each value within my array...

This is what the file looks like that I'm getting data from:

Movie[1][Title]=Troy&Movie[1][Genre]=Action / Drama / History /

Romance&Movie[2][Title]=Mr. and Mrs. Smith&Movie[2][Genre]=Action /

Comedy / Romance / Thriller

I have no idea how to get this to work...so any help would be amazing! Thank you so much!