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Julius

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Heres what I have so far:

$url = str_replace ( "/index.php/", "", $_SERVER [ 'REQUEST_URI' ] );
$url = preg_replace('#([^A-Za-z0-9_-])#', '', $url);

echo $url;

I want to replace EVERYTHING in my url EXCEPT a-zA-Z0-9_- and forward slash. How can I escape forward slash in my pattern?

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Hi Julius,

In agreement with Jay.

 

A touch more compact than what you have at the moment:

$url = preg_replace('#[^/[:alnum:]_-]#','',$url);

 

Wishing you a fun weekend.

 

[Edit: I had forgotten the hyphen and underscore]

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I was playing around with this pattern for about an hour, and the thing that I did wrong was adding slash right before ], not after ^.

 

But what works faster: :alnum: or all given values? or it doesn't really matter in this case?

 

Thank you for your help, guys!

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But what works faster: :alnum: or all given values?

 

Running this, I'm not seeing a difference.

 

$start=time();
$string='http://www.whatever.com?12()$%^*&';
for ($i=0;$i<1000000;$i++)
$url=preg_replace('#[^/[:alnum:]_-]#','',$string);
$lap=time();
for ($i=0;$i<1000000;$i++)
$url=preg_replace('#[^/0-9a-zA-Z_-]#','',$string);
$end=time();
$time1= $lap - $start;
$time2= $end - $lap;
echo $time1."<br />";
echo $time2."<br />";

 

Output:

6

6

 

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