I have a input form field which collects mixed strings.
Determine if a posted string contains an URL (e.g. http://link.com, link.com, www.link.com, etc) so it can then be anchored properly as needed.
An example of this would be something as micro blogging functionality where processing script will anchor anything with a link. Other sample could be this same post where 'http://link.com' got anchored automatically.
I believe I should approach this on display and not on input. How could I go about it?
You can use regular expressions to call a function on every match in PHP. You can for example use something like this:
<?php
function makeLink($match) {
// Parse link.
$substr = substr($match, 0, 6);
if ($substr != 'http:/' && $substr != 'https:' && $substr != 'ftp://' && $substr != 'news:/' && $substr != 'file:/') {
$url = 'http://' . $match;
} else {
$url = $match;
}
return '' . $match . '';
}
function makeHyperlinks($text) {
// Find links and call the makeLink() function on them.
return preg_replace('/((www\.|(http|https|ftp|news|file)+\:\/\/)[_.a-z0-9-]+\.[a-z0-9\/_:#=.+?,##%&~-]*[^.|\'|\# |!|\(|?|,| |>|<|;|\)])/e', "makeLink('$1')", $text);
}
?>
You will want to use a regular expression to match common URL patterns. PHP offers a function called preg_match that allows you to do this.
The regular expression itself could take several forms, but here is something to get you started (also maybe just Google 'URL regex':
'/^(((http|https|ftp)://)?([[a-zA-Z0-9]-.])+(.)([[a-zA-Z0-9]]){2,4}([[a-zA-Z0-9]/+=%&_.~?-]))$/'
So your code should look something this:
$matches = array(); // will hold the results of the regular expression match
$string = "http://www.astringwithaurl.com";
$regexUrl = '/^(((http|https|ftp):\/\/)?([[a-zA-Z0-9]\-\.])+(\.)([[a-zA-Z0-9]]){2,4}([[a-zA-Z0-9]\/+=%&_\.~?\-]*))*$/';
preg_match($regexUrl, $string, $matches);
print_r($matches); // an array of matched patterns
From here, you just want to wrap those URL patterns in an anchor/href tag and you're done.
Just how accurate do you want to be? Given just how varied URLs can be, you're going to have to draw the line somewhere. For instance. www.ca is a perfectly valid hostname and does bring up a site, but it's not something you'd EXPECT to work.
You should investigate regular expressions for this.
You will build a pattern that will match the part of your string that looks like a URL and format it appropriately.
It will come out something like this (lifted this, haven't tested it);
$pattern = "((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:##%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&]*)";
preg_match($pattern, $input_string, $url_matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, 3);
$url_matches will contain an array of all of the parts of the input string that matched the url pattern.
You can use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to get the host information.
<?php
$host = $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
?>
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Hi just need to solve this php issue
What I need is to get only specific part of the text that I get from remote server. So remote server gives me this kind of content
......":"http://xxxxxxxx.com?source=yyyyy&service=zzzzz&token=47baiufbweiwrwrqwr21","...........
And I need to get back only this part: token=47baiufbweiwrwrqwr21
thank for help
Use parse_url() and preg_match()
$url = 'http://xxxxxxxx.com?source=yyyyy&service=zzzzz&token=47baiufbweiwrwrqwr21';
$query = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
preg_match('/token=([a-z0-9]+)/i', $query, $token);
echo $token[1];
parse_url() returns the Components of an URL.
You want to have a specific Query-Parameter, so you use the PHP_URL_QUERY-Component. After this you extract the token with a Regular Expression that searches for the Parameter-Name "token" followed by a "=". Then you catch all characters you want (a-z and 0-9). You set the i-Delimiter for a caseinsensitive Search. $token[1] returns the Match within the Subpattern (Brackets).
And if you get the URL from a File you can read it into a String using file_get_contents().
You can use substr and stripos
This will make sure you get the correct part even if the variables are in a different order and is not case sensitive.
https://3v4l.org/q35f0
$url = 'http://xxxxxxxx.com?source=yyyyy&token=47baiufbweiwrwrqwr21&service=zzzzz';
$pos = stripos($url, "token");
$pos2 = stripos($url, "&", $pos);
If($pos2 > 0){
Echo substr($url, $pos, $pos2-$pos);
}Else{
Echo substr($url, $pos);
}
Edit sorry my phone autocorrected my stripos to strpos. Funny how my phone is starting to learn php.
I need to get the vine video id from the url
so the output from link like this
https://vine.co/v/bXidIgMnIPJ
be like this
bXidIgMnIPJ
I tried to use code form other question here for Vimeo (NOT VINE)
Get img thumbnails from Vimeo?
This what I tried to use but I did not succeed
$url = 'https://vine.co/v/bXidIgMnIPJ';
preg_replace('~^https://(?:www\.)?vine\.co/(?:clip:)?(\d+)~','$1',$url)
basename maybe?
<?php
$url = 'https://vine.co/v/bXidIgMnIPJ';
var_dump(basename($url));
http://codepad.org/vZiFP27y
Assuming it will always be in that format, you can just split the url by the / delimiter. Regex is not needed for a simple url such as this.
$id = end(explode('/', $url));
Referring to as the question is asked here is a solution for preg_replace:
$s = 'https://vine.co/v/bXidIgMnIPJ';
$new_s = preg_replace('/^.*\//','',$s);
echo $new_s;
// => bXidIgMnIPJ
or if you need to validate that an input string is indeed a link to vine.co :
$new_s = preg_replace('/^(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?vine\.co.*\//','',$s);
I don't know if that /v/ part is always present or is it always v... if it is then it may also be added to regex for stricter validation:
$new_s = preg_replace('/^(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?vine\.co\/v\//','',$s);
Here's what I am using:
function getVineId($url) {
preg_match("#(?<=vine.co/v/)[0-9A-Za-z]+#", $url, $matches);
if (isset($matches[0])) {
return $matches[0];
}
return false;
}
I used a look-behind to ensure "vine.co/v/" always precedes the ID, while ignoring if the url is HTTP or HTTPS (or if it lacks a protocol altogether). It assumes the ID is alphanumeric, of any length. It will ignore any characters or parameters after the id (like Google campaign tracking parameters, etc).
I used the "#" delimiter so I wouldn't have to escape the forward slashes (/), for a cleaner look.
explode the string with '/' and the last string is what you are looking for :) Code:
$vars = explode("/",$url);
echo $vars[count($vars)-1];
$url = 'https://vine.co/v/b2PFre2auF5';
$regex = '/^http(?:s?):\/\/(?:www\.)?vine\.co\/v\/([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,13})$/';
preg_match($regex,$url,$m);
print_r($m);
1. b2PFre2auF5
I know it may sound as a common question but I have difficulty understanding this process.
So I have this string:
http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect
And I need to get only the word "tgadv". But I don't know that the word is "tgadv", it could be whatever.
Also the url itself may change and become:
http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv
or
http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv/
So what I need is to create a function that will get whatever word is after campaign and before any other particular character. That's the logic..
The only certain thing is that the word will come after the word campaign/ and that any other character that will be after the word we are searching is a special one ( i.e. / or ? )
I tried understanding preg_match but really cannot get any good result from it..
Any help would be highly appreciated!
I would not use a regex for that. I would use parse_url and basename:
$bits = parse_url('http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect');
$filename = basename($bits['path']);
echo $filename;
However, if want a regex solution, use something like this:
$pattern = '~(.*)/(.*)(\?.*)~';
preg_match($pattern, 'http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect', $matches);
$filename = $matches[2];
echo $filename;
Actually, preg_match sounds like the perfect solution to this problem. I assume you are having problems with the regex?
Try something like this:
<?php
$url = "http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv/";
$pattern = "#campaign/([^/\?]+)#";
preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);
// $matches[1] will contain tgadv.
$path = "http://domain.com/campaign/tgadv?redirect";
$url_parts = parse_url($path);
$tgadv = strrchr($url_parts['path'], '/');
You don't really need a regex to accomplish this. You can do it using stripos() and substr().
For example:
$str = '....Your string...';
$offset = stripos($str, 'campaign/');
if ( $offset === false ){
//error, end of h4 tag wasn't found
}
$offset += strlen('campaign/');
$newStr = substr($str, $offset);
At this point $newStr will have all the text after 'campaign/'.
You then just need to use a similar process to find the special character position and use substr() to strip the string you want out.
You can also just use the good old string functions in this case, no need to involve regexps.
First find the string /campaign/, then take the substring with everything after it (tgadv/asd/whatever/?redirect), then find the next / or ? after the start of the string, and everything in between will be what you need (tgadv).
I'm using the code at the bottom to grab parameters from a wordpress shortcode. The shortcode itself looks like this:
[FLOWPLAYER=http://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/pll-316-21.jpg|http://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PLL316_fv2.h264HD-Clip2.flv,440,280]
Or
[FLOWPLAYER=http://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/pll-316-21.jpg|http://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PLL316_fv2.h264HD-Clip2.flv,440,280,false]
What I would like to have happen is that if the extra parameter (false/true) is missing then that match becomes "false", however with the current code if the parameter is missing a match is never made. Any ideas?
function legacy_hook($content){
$regex = '/\[FLOWPLAYER=([a-z0-9\:\.\-\&\_\/\|]+)\,([0-9]+)\,([0-9]+)\,([a-z0-9\:\.\-\&\_\/\|]+)\]/i';
$matches = array();
preg_match_all($regex, $content, $matches);
if($matches[0][0] != '') {
foreach($matches[0] as $key => $data) {
$content = str_replace($matches[0][$key], flowplayer::build_player($matches[2][$key], $matches[3][$key], $matches[1][$key],$matches[4][$key]),$content);
}
}
return $content;
}
your regex is looking for the last comma to be there and one or more of the characters in the last set of brackets. Something like
/\[FLOWPLAYER=([a-z0-9\:\.\-\&\_\/\|]+)\,([0-9]+)\,([0-9]+)(\,[a-z]+)?\]/i
only issue is you'll get the comma in the match too.
might be what you're after, then you have to test for the last match being present. preg_match_all returns the number of matches so you might be able to use that, or you could do an inline if...
(count($matches) > 4 ? $matches[4][$key] : false)
You can add OR at the end of your expression
(,true|,false|$)
I didn't check does it work but you get the idea.
I have fooled around with regex but can't seem to get it to work. I have a file called includes/header.php I am converting the file into one big string so that I can pull out a certain portion of the code to paste in the html of my document.
$str = file_get_contents('includes/header.php');
From here I am trying to get return only the string that starts with <ul class="home"> and ends with </ul>
try as I may to figure out an expression I am still confused.
Once I trim down the string I can just print that on my page but I can't figure out the trimming part
If you need something really hardcore, http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.xmlreader.php.
If you just want to rip out the text that fits that pattern try something like this.
$string = "stuff<ul class=\"home\">alsdkjflaskdvlsakmdf<another></another></ul>stuff";
if( preg_match( '/<ul class="home">(.*)<\/ul>/', $string, $match ) ) {
//do stuff with $match[0]
}
I'm assuming that the difficulty you're having has to do with escaping the regex special characters in the string(s) you're using as a delimiter. If so, try using the preg_quote() function:
$start = preg_quote('<ul class="home">');
$end = preg_quote('</ul>', '/');
preg_match("/" . $start. '.*' . $end . "/", $str, $matching_html_snippets);
The html you want should be in $matching_html_snippets[0]
You probably want an XML parser such as the built in one. Here is an example you might want to take a look at.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse.php#90733
If you want to use regex then something along the lines of
$str = file_get_contents('includes/header.php');
$matchedstr = preg_match("<place your pattern here>", $str, $matches);
You probably want the pattern
'/<ul class="home">.*?<\/ul>/s'
Where $matches will contain an array of the matches it found so you can grab whatever element you want from the array with
$matchedstr[0];
which will return the first element. And then output that.
But I'd be a bit wary, regular expressions do tend to match to surprising edge cases and you need to feed them actual data to get reliable results as to when they are failing. However if you are just passing templates it should be ok, just do some tests and see if it all works. If not I'd still recommend using the PHP XML Parser.
Hope that helps.
If you feel like not using regexes you could use string finding, which I think the PHP manual implies is quicker:
function substrstr($orig, $startText, $endText) {
//get first occurrence of the start string
$start = strpos($orig, $startText);
//get last occurrence of the end string
$end = strrpos($orig, $endText);
if($start === FALSE || $end === FALSE)
return $orig;
$start++;
$length = $end - $start;
return substr($orig, $start, $length);
}
$substr = substrstr($string, '<ul class="home">', '</ul>');
You'll need to make some adjustments if you want to include the terminating strings in the output, but that should get you started!
Here's a novel way to do it; I make no guarantees about this technique's robustness or performance, other than it does work for the example given:
$prefix = '<ul class="home">';
$suffix = '</ul>';
$result = $prefix . array_shift(explode($suffix, array_pop(explode($prefix, $str)))) . $suffix;