How to extract specific info from the url

[misterm]

Hi

 

Can anyone help with this?

 

If the url of a certain page on my site is http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345

 

I use <? $thisPage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?> to set $thisPage as "http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345"

 

What I really need to do now is set the variable $thisCategory to whatever comes between category/ and /345 keeping in mind that the number at the end will change for every category of the site.

 

The reason I can't just grab an existing variable for the category is because it is hissed in an ioncube encrypted file.

 

Any help would be so appreciated as this would save me hours and hours of work.

 

many thanks

 

Mr M

[wayjo]

Hiyah,

 

I think I would try using regular expression to do that. I don't think there is a function to do it for you.

 

Just do a search for php and regular expression in google and you'll get loads of results and examples.

 

PHP covers two types of regexp in the help file too.

 

HTH!

 

wayjo

[abdfahim]

why dont you try this

<?php
$thisPage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$temp1=explode("category",$thisPage);
$temp2=explode("/",$temp1);
$thisCategory=$temp2[1];
?>

[The Little Guy]

If it will always be formatted the same, you could do this:

 

$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345';
$values = explode('/',$url);
print_r($values);

[misterm]

Thanks Little Guy

 

That outputs:  Array ( [0] => [1] => Category [2] => Branding [3] => 159 )

 

But am not sure how to use it to get "Branding".  :/

 

Yes, the format will lways be the same.

 

 

If it will always be formatted the same, you could do this:

 

$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345';
$values = explode('/',$url);
print_r($values);

[misterm]

Thanks abdbuet

 

That just seems to output the full page url  :/

 

 

 

why dont you try this

<?php
$thisPage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$temp1=explode("category",$thisPage);
$temp2=explode("/",$temp1);
$thisCategory=$temp2[1];
?>

[The Little Guy]

$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345';
$values = explode('/',$url);

echo $values[4];

[misterm]

Brilliant!!!

 

Thank you so much. That works a treat.

 

And thanks again abdbuet for your suggestion.

 

Mr M

 

 

 

$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345';
$values = explode('/',$url);

echo $values[4];

[kenrbnsn]

You can also do something like:

<?php
$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/category/books/345';
$purl = parse_url($url);
list ($dmy,$catagory,$type,$id) = explode('/',$purl['path']);
print_r($purl);
echo '$catagory: ' . $catagory . "\n";
echo '$type: ' . $type . "\n";
echo '$id: ' . $id . "\n";
?>

 

Ken