Uhh....

[gamefreak13]

I don't know what to title this.

 

I have

 

$sometext = "site.com/viewprofile.cfm?blah=yay&friendid=12828&mytoken=dsf22d23d";

 

I need to take $sometext and delete EVERYTHING before the equal sign after friendid... AND.. everything after the number 12828.. thus leaving only the number 12828 (which changes depending on the setting of $sometext).

 

The result (remove red, keep green):

 

$sometext = "site.com/viewprofile.cfm?blah=yay&friendid=12828&mytoken=dsf22d23d";

 

Which means..

 

$sometext = "12828";

 

How do I do this with PHP?

[peranha]

Is this in the url

[samuraitux]

note sure if this is right but you can take

$sometext = $_REQUEST['friendid']

and that should give $sometext the value of 1282. However this will only work if site.com/viewprofile.cfm?blah=yay&friendid=12828&mytoken=dsf22d23d is being passed through the url and not actually assigned to $sometext in teh first place.

[peranha]

$sometext = $_GET['friendid'];

 

That would be if it is in the url, but not if passed through a form.

[gamefreak13]

Everyone replied with the same answer on Yahoo Answers.. uggh (although I do understand the confusion).

 

Do not look at it like its a url... imagine its just text. Somesite.com is not my site. It is the referrer to a php script of mine. Now, the referer is just text.. ignore that its a url.

 

Now.. I need to rip just the number of friendid. How do I do that?

 

Thanks!

[peranha]

Is there always 3 variables

 

blah=yay

 

friendid=12828

 

mytoken=dsf22d23d

 

Or do they change amounts

[gamefreak13]

The amounts always change.. which is why this is so difficult. I believe I need to do something like substr (I think it the proper code) and tell it to delete things like mysite.com and viewprofile.cfm and all question marks.. etc.. but that seems so sloppy.

 

I would think there has to be a way to be like "hey php, see this variable in this text? Give it to me.".

[sasa]

if $sometext isn't url try

<?php
$sometext = "site.com/viewprofile.cfm?blah=yay&friendid=12828&mytoken=dsf22d23d";
preg_match('/friendid=([^&]*)/',$sometext,$out);
$friendid = $out[1];
echo $friendid;
?>

[peranha]

if $sometext isn't url try

<?php
$sometext = "site.com/viewprofile.cfm?blah=yay&friendid=12828&mytoken=dsf22d23d";
preg_match('/friendid=([^&]*)/',$sometext,$out);
$friendid = $out[1];
echo $friendid;
?>

 

I really should learn regex it looks like

[gamefreak13]

OMG Thank you!!!!!!

 

That is EXACTLY what I needed!!!

 

*celebrates*

[gamefreak13]

Ok one little problem.. what if friendid is written as friendID or FriendID... it doesnt work.. its matching the case of all lowercase.

 

I think there is a function called lower or lwr or something that will change it to lowercase before "searching" so-to-speak... or is there an easier/better way?

[gamefreak13]

Got it.. but if there is a better or regexish way of doing it, I'm all ears.

 

$sometext = strtolower("thelinkgoeshere");

preg_match('/friendid=([^&]*)/',$sometext,$out);

[sasa]

preg_match('/friendid=([^&]*)/i',$sometext,$out);

or

<?php
$sometext = "site.com/viewprofile.cfm?blah=yay&friendID=12828&mytoken=dsf22d23d";
$sometext=parse_url($sometext);
parse_str($sometext['query'],$out);
$out=array_change_key_case($out);
$friendid = $out['friendid'];
echo $friendid;
?>

[gamefreak13]

I used the first one. The second one looks excessive (unless there is some sort of benefit?).

 

Beautiful. Thank you!

[gamefreak13]

I got another one..

 

If I have something like myspace.com/bluemonkey00 or myspace.com/23481932 .. how do I get just the username or userid?

 

In case anyone is wondeirng, I'm making a myspace logger. It utilizes the referer to see what they saw. I personally can look at the url and figure it out, but it looks better to say "Viewed profile bluemonkey00" then the ugly url.

 

This one is a little more tricky because something like myspace.com/contactus (if thats even real?) would come up too. So I'm not sure if this is even possible.

 

I appreciate the help so far, so if this is a little too much its cool.

[gamefreak13]

Ok this one really has me confused as to why its not working. See, the referer urls may be for bulletins (which contain messageid) or profile views (which contain friendid). So I tried this but it makes them all come out as "Viewed Bulletin " without any numbers... even for the ones that dont contain messageid. I was the links containing messageid to output one thing, and the ones containing friendid to output something else.

 

If "friendid" exists in the referer, then $refererclean equals xyz.

If "messageid" exists in the referer, then $refererclean equals abc.

 

This works:

 

	preg_match('/friendid=([^&]*)/i',$result['referer'],$output);
	$refererclean = "Viewed profile #".$output[1];

 

This doesn't:

 

	if(preg_match('/friendid=([^&]*)/i',$result['referer'],$output)); {
		$refererclean = "Viewed profile #".$output[1];
	}

	if(preg_match('/messageid=([^&]*)/i',$result['referer'],$output)); {
		$refererclean = "Viewed bulletin #".$output[1];
	}

[sasa]

<?php
$sometext = "myspace.com/bluemonkey00";
$sometext= pathinfo($sometext);
print_r($sometext);
?>

[gamefreak13]

Thanks.. simple code there sasa. I'll get that in later.

[gamefreak13]

This doesn't work perfectly. Granted, the usernames should only contain letters and numbers and underscores and hypens, but something like myspace.com/contactus (example) would return contactus when thats not a myspace profile. Maybe I could do a list of banned results?

 

<?php
$sometext = "myspace.com/bluemonkey00&var=something&test=ok";
$sometext= pathinfo($sometext);
print_r($sometext['filename']);
?>

 

Outputs

 

bluemonkey00&var=something&test=ok