[SOLVED] Wildcard with php self

[SirChick]

Hey guys,

 

Am needing some help on an idea i brought up... i have scripts and pages that only respond in certain "Cities" on my site... by doing this is put the first letter of each city infront of the script names so there are all like Lhome.php Lgym.php etc

 

Now what i want to try and do is something where by using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

 

I want to use a wild card to do if $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] begins with L wildcard then ok, else header location "phpscript.php"

 

is this possible, if so how is it done  ???

[trq]

You could use substr to get the first letter if thats what your after.

[GingerRobot]

You don't even need the function:

 

<?php
$str = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo $str[1]; //using 1 rather than 0, since 0 is the forward slash
?>

[SirChick]

You don't even need the function:

 

<?php
$str = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo $str[1]; //using 1 rather than 0, since 0 is the forward slash
?>

 

 

I tried this:

 

 

php script named "London.php"

$str = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
If ($str{0} == 'L'){
Echo 'test1';
}
Else{
Echo ' test2';
}

 

yet it echo's test2 and not test 1 :S

[trq]

You don't even need the function:

 

<?php
$str = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo $str[1]; //using 1 rather than 0, since 0 is the forward slash
?>

 

 

so if it gets that from a php script named "Lcity.php"

 

then $str = L ?

 

No. $str[1] will equal L

[SirChick]

Oh ok,

 

i changed it to this:

If ($str{1} == 'L'){
Echo 'test';
}
Else{
Echo 'test2';
}

 

 

and it echos test 2 even though the php file is London.php

[GingerRobot]

Are you sure its London.php with a capital L and not london.php?

[trq]

What does...

 

<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>

 

output?

[Dragen]

It's probably because it's in a subdirectory, so it's getting the first letter of the folder:

/subdirectory/London.php

 

So you need to get only the part after the last /

[SirChick]

argh its case sensitive damn ! ok its sorted now