How to get a string from url using preg_match? - php

I want to extract id from an url using php preg_match..
For eg: $string = 'http://www.mysite.com/profile.php?id=1111'; I need output as '1111'
using preg_match.
I tried this :
if(preg_match('/(?:https?):\/\/www\.mysite\.com\/profile\.php\?id\=[0-9]/', $string, $match) > 0){
$id = $match[1];
}
But am getting output as 'profile.php'
Can someone help me please?


Why not use parse_url with parse_str
$url_component = parse_url($string);
parse_str($url_component['query'], $output);
echo $output['id'];


if there is only one parameter in the url you can use explode function to do that easily, like
$string = 'http://www.mysite.com/profile.php?id=1111';
$ex=explode('=',$string);
$id=$ex[1];
You may also use parse_url function of php.
Hope this help,


$pattern = '/(?:https?):\/\/www\.mysite\.com\/profile\.php\?id\=([0-9]+)/';
This should work fine!
But do this with parse_url

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How to get last part of a string?

I have this string:
"application/controllers/backend"
I want get:
backend
of course the backend it's dynamic, so could be change, so I'm looking for a solution that allow me to get only the last part of the string. How I can do that?

You can take the advantage of basename() to get the last part
in your case, it will be
basename("application/controllers/backend");
Output:
backend

Some thing like this :
echo end(explode("/", $url));
If this thorws error then do :
$parts = explode("/", $url);
echo end($parts);

$arr = explode ("/", $string);
//$arr[2] is your third element in the string
http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

Just use
basename("application/controllers/backend");
http://php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php

And, if you want to do it with a regex:
$result = (preg_match('%.*[/\\\\](.*?)$%', $url, $regs)) ? $regs[1] : '';

You did ask initially for a solution with regex, so, although the other answers haven't involved regex, here is one approach which does.
You can use preg_match and str_replace for this:
$string = '"application/controllers/backend"';
preg_match('/[^\/]+"/', $string, $matches);
$last_item = str_replace('"','',$matches[0]);
$last_item is now a string containing the word backend.

Regex to get ID of pastebin.com

I need to get the ID part of a pastebin link,
which is setup like http://pastebin.com/{id}, i have tired alot of different regex i am also using preg_match in php

preg_match("~http://pastebin.com/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)~", $url, $match);
print_r($match);
or
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$parsed = parse_url($url);
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Instead of regex, try using parse_url to extract the path

regex would be overkill for this.
$url = "http://pastebin.com/Ugj1eqCN"
$pos = strpos($url,"pastebin.com/");
echo substr($url,$pos+13);

Replace string using php preg_replace

Hi all i know preg_replace can be used for formatting string but i need help in that concerned area my url will be like this
http://www.example.com/index.php/
also remove the http,https,ftp....sites also
what i want is to get
result as
example.com/index.php

echo preg_replace("~(([a-z]*[:](//))|(www.))~", '', "ftp://www.example.com");

$url = 'http://www.example.com/index.php/';
$strpos = strpos($url,'.');
$output = substr($url,$strpos+1);

$parts=parse_url($url);
unset($parts['scheme']);
//echo http_build_url($parts);
echo implode("",$parts);
EDIT
To use http_build_url you needs pecl_http you can use implode as alternate

Something like this
$url = "http://www.example.com/index.php";
$parts = parse_url($url);
unset($parts['scheme']);
echo preg_replace('/^((ww)[a-z\d][\x2E])/i', '', join('', $parts));
Output
example.com/index.php
Example #2
$url = "http://ww3.nysif.com/Workers_Compensation.aspx";
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nysif.com/Workers_Compensation.aspx

regex part of url

So I'm trying to get the id from a url for youtube..
here is the url
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/kffacxfA7G4/related?v=2
then there's also - in the url too.
it wouldn't let me post another url but it's the same as above but with the id ucvkO0x-mL4
how can I grab between videos/ and /related (the id) with regex?
I tried to use txt2re.com which is what I always use, but it's not working for this case..
thanks!

No need for even regex, just a simple strpos and substr will do it. Or just use explode like this:
<?php
$url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/kffacxfA7G4/related?v=2';
//BY STRPOS/SUBSTR
echo substr($url, 42, strpos($url, '/related', 42) - 42);
//BY EXPLODE
$parts = explode('/', $url);
echo $parts[6];
?>

(?:.*)videos/(.*?)/related\?v=2

This is how I would do it
$url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/kffacxfA7G4/related?v=2';
preg_match('#.*videos/([0-9a-zA-Z_\-]{11})/related.*#', $url, $matches);
print_r($matches);
But, #shamittomar is right about strpos and substr

using regex you can do it by
$url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/kffacxfA7G4/related?v=2";
preg_match('/videos\/(.+)\/related/',$url,$match);
$id = $match[1];

regex help getting a value from url

i have this
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFyHi2aIJIV7kAlui1Sd_MQGosiBA&url=http://ksa.daralhayat.com/ksaarticle/192445
i want to get the value of url= only

$url = html_entity_decode($url);
$parts = parse_url($url);
parse_str($parts['query'],$params);
echo $params['url'];

For completeness the you can preg_match with that:
/^.*url\=(.*)$/
But you should prefer the parse_url() method that is really faster than a RegEx.

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