match value after = sign

[doug007]

hi guys,

 

give this string ?page=home

 

how would you match/get anything after the = sign?

 

thanks

[RussellReal]

there are ways to do this without regex and you should use them before regex, regex is for pattern matching.. Using regex will always be a slower alternative, so if there IS an alternative you should use it

 

but the regex would be

 

/^?[^=]+=(.*)$/

[doug007]

thanks men.

[doug007]

ok this isn't working it errors out:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1

$pattern='/^?[^=]+=(.*)$/';
			if(preg_match($pattern, "home", $matches)){

					  //$this->page=$this->urlpage;
					  var_dump($matches);
}

[JAY6390]

Yup. parse_str() would be a better choice

 

example

$str = '?page=home';
$str = ltrim($str, '?');
parse_str($str, $array);
echo $array['page'];

[doug007]

Yup. parse_str() would be a better choice

 

example

$str = '?page=home';
$str = ltrim($str, '?');
parse_str($str, $array);
echo $array['page'];

 

Thanks Jay.  parse_str is a nice little function

[RussellReal]

also sorry, you would have needed to escape the ? as ? is a quantifier.