preg_match help needed

[DrTrans]

ok so i have a url  example" 

 

$url = "http://blah.domain.com/directory/INFINITA/76/98/23"; 

 

i need to be able to match specifically that its a domain of http://blah.domain.com/directory/, and be able to return the value of " INFINITA " 

 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

[Ch0cu3r]

No need for regex use parse_url

$url = 'http://blah.domain.com/directory/INFINITA/76/98/23';

$urlPath = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); // get the path from the url

$segment = explode('/', trim($urlPath, '/')); // explode the path into segments
echo $segment[1]; // get the second segment INFINITA

Edited December 1, 2013 by Ch0cu3r

[DrTrans]

That would do every url that way that i pass to it.   basically 

 

what I'm trying to do is...

 

$text = " Im hanging out at http://blah.domain.com/directory/INFINITA/76/98/23" ;   

 

$text would return = "Im hanging out at INFINITA " with the "INFINITA" being hyperlinked to the original url.   

 

However,  if $text = "Go look at this thread: http://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/284414"    it doesn't bother it.