Matching url and more

[pneudralics]

I can't seem to get the match after:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?

 

I want to be able to check for at least 20 characters to 100 and the allowed characters are in [].

 

The text string will always be: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?

 

preg_match ('|^http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?[A-Za-z0-9._=&?]{20,100}$|', $link)

[ignace]

$url = 'http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?param=value';
$query = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);

$get = array();
parse_str($query, $get);

echo $get['param'];

[pneudralics]

$url = 'http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?param=value';
$query = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);

$get = array();
parse_str($query, $get);

echo $get['param'];

 

Not trying to break the url apart. I just want to be able to match:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php? (and 20-100 more characters afterwards)

[ignace]

Not trying to break the url apart. I just want to be able to match:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php? (and 20-100 more characters afterwards)

 

To do what?

[pneudralics]

Make sure the links submitted matches a pattern

[ZachMEdwards]

$pattern = '%http://www\.phpfreaks\.com/forums/(index\.php\?(?:[A-Za-z0-9._=&?]{20,100}|))%';