[SOLVED] Url Stripping

[pgrevents]

Again not to confident with php I am trying to get a specific part of a url for example

 

http://www.pgrevents.co.uk/process/yvideo.php?catch=http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/5005027/13315673

 

I need to get the 5005027

 

Does anyone have any ideas? I tried looking for examples but I cant seem to get any

 

thanks

 

Paul

[Ken2k7]

First, I would advice you to learn PHP basics if you don't know it already. I am not underestimating your abilities, but it would help you to understand my code. It's a basic *snippet*. It's not a full code so please do not badger me about it not working if you just copy and paste.

 

<?php

$catch = $_GET['catch'];
preg_match('#watch/(\d+)/', $catch, $match);

[pgrevents]

i understand the basics and will look more into th code you have provided thank you for your help

[Ken2k7]

First, I would advice you to learn PHP basics if you don't know it already. I am not underestimating your abilities, but it would help you to understand my code. It's a basic *snippet*. It's not a full code so please do not badger me about it not working if you just copy and paste.

 

<?php

$catch = $_GET['catch'];
preg_match('#watch/(\d+)/', $catch, $match);

 

Whoops, my mistake.

 

<?php

$catch = $_GET['catch'];
preg_match('#watch/(\d+)/#', $catch, $match);

 

I forgot the closing delimiter. I apologize. The above should be correct.

[pgrevents]

I have actualy been looking into this using parse_url here is an example

<?php
$catch = $_GET['catch'];
print $catch;
print "<br />";

///GO GO GADGET

print_r(parse_url($catch));
print "<br />";
echo parse_url($catch, PHP_URL_PATH); ?>

 

which gives me an out put of;

 

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/5005027/13315673

Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => uk.video.yahoo.com [path] => /watch/5005027/13315673 )

-> this is using the last echo in the code = /watch/5005027/13315673

 

that is getting closer to what I am looking for. Am I on the right track?

 

thanks

 

[Ken2k7]

I'll take it that you don't like my idea. Fair enough.

[pgrevents]

sorry lol. i tried it but i didnt undestand it as it kept outputting = Array() or 1. and you said dont badger you so  kept looking on php.net

 

[Ken2k7]

That's not what I meant. It's just some people show less courtesy to people giving help that when I post snippets (not full code), they copy and pasted and then come back and say it doesn't work.

 

<?php

$catch = $_GET['catch'];
preg_match('#/watch/(\d+)/#', $catch, $match);

 

In that code, you would like to print_r($match) because it is an array. If you echo it, you'll get Array().

[pgrevents]

oooohhhhh it worked thank you so much

[pgrevents]

and I use array_pop($match); to grab that code

 

yeeeeee