[SOLVED] preg match pattern

[dtdetu]

hello i get content of a page with curl i and i am trying to find if there is a "Your message has been sent to" in the page i use this code but it doesnt work. can u check this.

 

if (preg_match("[Your message has been sent to\!]", $store)) 
{ 
	...
} 
else 
{ 
	...
}

[JasonLewis]

Why not just use strpos?

[SuperBlue]

You need to account for the situation where something would be found before and after the string you are looking for.

 

<?php
$string = "hallo this
an attempt at
Matching This String which should return true";

if (preg_match("/^.*Matching This String.*/s", $string)) {
echo 'Match Found!';
} else {
echo 'No Match Found!';
}

?>

 

The "s" modifier at the end simply makes the dot include newlines. The star after the dot (.) both allows for nothing to exist, and everything. I.e the characters allowed before and after the pattern to be matched, may be repeated 0 or more times.

 

So in your case the pattern would be something like:

<?php
if (preg_match("/^.*Your message has been sent to
.*/s", $string)) {
echo 'Match Found!';
} else {
echo 'No Match Found!';
}

?>

[SuperBlue]

Actually this would be easier:

 

<?php
$string = "hallo this
an attempt at
Matching This String which should return true";


if (preg_match("/Matching This String/", $string)) {
echo 'Match Found!';
} else {
echo 'No Match Found!';
}

?> 

 

Removing the start "^" indicator will allow you to do this.

[JasonLewis]

Or you could just use strpos() as I said above (in this case I've used stripos()).

 

$string = "hallo this an attempt at Matching This String which should return true";

if(stripos($string, "matching this string") !== false){
echo "MATHCED";
}else{
echo "NOT MATCHED";
}

[dtdetu]

thanks i used stripos now it works good now, i need one more:) i didnt want to open new topic , my question is how can i get the Limoncafe from this with pregmatch all

 

<span style='color:#CC6600;'>Your message has been sent to Limoncafe</span>

 

preg_match_all('~<span style="color:#CC6600;">([^<]*)</span>~',$store,$matches);
echo $matches[1];

 

this code gives me Array only .

 

[ddrudik]

$matches[1] is an array in that case, use print_r to view it.

[dtdetu]

ok but still i get nothing, i thing there is error in my regex what do u think

[ddrudik]

You have single quotes in your source and double quotes in your pattern.

[JasonLewis]

$text = "<span style='color:#CC6600;'>Your message has been sent to Limoncafe</span>";
	preg_match("~<span style='color:#CC6600;'>Your message has been sent to (.*?)</span>~i", $text, $matches);
	echo $matches[1];

[dtdetu]

thanks again ProjectFear both working fine now.