str ireplace PHP parts of url - php

Question

I have a html doc that has links in it.
Example :
http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis
http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis
http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant3/Idontwantthiseither
I want to replace these with:
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant2
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant3
How can I do this? I feel like the only way is to use str_ireplace to get the value that I want and append it to the other link, I just can't seem to remove the part after the value that I want.
I use:
$var= str_ireplace("http://mysite1.com/test/", "http://myothersite.com/", $var);
But then I get the after value still on the link:
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant/Idontwantthis
I tried and now am turning to the community for help.
Thanks
Oh and they are enclosed in the tag with class and other attributes, all I need to change is the URL as explained above.
The links are not in an array they are being edited from a javascript file so they will be in a large variable as text.
$examples =
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis
http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant3/Idontwantthiseither'
;

Answer 1

Edit: using your updated example, you can split those URLs up by the whitespace between them:
$examples = 'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant3/Idontwantthiseither';
$examples = explode(' ', $examples);
Alternative example array:
$examples = array(
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis',
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis',
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant3/Idontwantthiseither'
);
Regex solution:
$pattern = '/^(?:http|https):\/\/.+\/.*\/(.+)\/.*$/Um';
$replace = 'http://myothersite.com/$1';
foreach($examples as $example) {
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $example);
}
Non-regex solution:
foreach($examples as $example) {
// remove the original domain name
$first = str_ireplace('http://mysite1.com/test/', '', $example);
// prepend the new domain name with the first part of the remaining URL
// e.g. strip everything after the first slash
echo 'http://myothersite.com/' . explode('/', $first)[0];
}
Note: using explode(...)[0] is array dereferencing, and is supported in PHP >= 5.4.0. For previous versions of PHP, use a variable to store the array before referencing it:
$bits = explode('/', $first);
echo 'http://myothersite.com/' . $bits[0];
From the manual:
As of PHP 5.4 it is possible to array dereference the result of a function or method call directly. Before it was only possible using a temporary variable.
Example output:
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant2
http://myothersite.com/whatIwant3

Answer 2

This function should do the job.
<?php
function EditLink($link)
{
$link = explode("/",$link);
return $link[4];
}
$new_link = "http://myothersite.com/".EditLink("http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis")."";
echo $new_link;
?>

Answer 3

Try this no regex:
$urls = array(
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant3/Idontwantthiseither',
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis',
'http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant2/Istilldontwantthis'
);
$new_site = "http://myothersite.com/";
foreach ($urls as $url) {
$pathinfo = pathinfo($url);
$base = basename($pathinfo['dirname']);
$var = str_ireplace($url, $new_site . $base, $url);
echo $var . '<br>';
}
As of PHP 5.3:
$new_urls = array_map(function($url) { // anonymous function
global $new_site;
$pathinfo = pathinfo($url);
$base = basename($pathinfo['dirname']);
$var = str_ireplace($url, $new_site . $base, $url);
return $var;
}, $urls);
echo implode('<br>', $new_urls);

Answer 4

Sorry by my last answer, you was right, the order was correct.
Try this one with pre_replace, I beleave could solve the problem:
$var = "http://mysite1.com/test/whatIwant/Idontwantthis";
$var = preg_replace("/http\:\/\/mysite1.com\/([^\/]+)\/?.*/", "http://myothersite.com/$1", $var);
echo $var;