Php script to generate page of highlights

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I’m running this php script on a schedule to generate a page of all highlighted passages in my vault. Note that it assumes your highlights do not span multiple paragraphs (and I am on Windows). Hope it sparks some ideas of the possibilities.

<?php
$dir = "C:\Users\CHANGE_THIS\Dropbox\info"; // Set to your vault location
$files = getMarkdownFiles();
$md = "# Highlights demo\n";

foreach($files as $file){
    $content = file_get_contents($file);
    $lines = explode("\n",$content);
    foreach($lines as $line){
        if(strpos($line,'==') !== false){
            $topic = str_replace($dir.'/','',$file);
			$topic = str_replace('.md','',$topic);
			$md .= "## [[{$topic}]]\n";
			$md .= get_string_between($line,'==','==');
			$md .= "\n";
        }
    }
}

file_put_contents($dir . "/Highlights demo.md",$md);

function getMarkdownFiles()
{
    global $dir;
    $fileList = glob($dir . '/*.md');
    return $fileList;
}

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
    $string = ' ' . $string;
    $ini = strpos($string, $start);
    if ($ini == 0) return '';
    $ini += strlen($start);
    $len = strpos($string, $end, $ini) - $ini;
    return substr($string, $ini, $len);
}
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