Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > Hi lista, > > I have been trying to figure this out for the last couple of hours but I'm > lack of luck. > Take a look at these regex's, the string that was inputed into the > preg_replace (using Uis modificators) and the results: > (the lists have correspondence to each other) > > ORIGINAL STRING > ---- > > http://www.zshare.net/video/541070871c7a8d9c > http://www.guba.com/watch/2000821351 > http://www.veoh.com/videos/v4609719YfsCFpf > > > REGEX USED (with Uis modificators) > ---- > http:\/\/(www\.|)zshare\.net\/video\/([^\/]+) $3 > http:\/\/(www\.|)guba\.com\/watch\/([0-9]+) $3 > http:\/\/(www\.|)veoh\.com\/videos\/([^\/]+) > > THE RETURNED STRING > ---- > 41070871c7a8d9c > 000821351 > 4609719YfsCFpf > > If you will go through this carefully you will notice that the first > character of each matching group is being deleted. > The regex's and the replacements string are being fetched from the database > (mysql) and goes straight to the preg_replace function with the original > string. > > I have no idea why this happens. > I'm looking forward for your opinions and suggestions. > > Regards, > Nitsan > In my opinion... http://us3.php.net/parse_url is your friend here... <?php $urls[] = 'http://www.zshare.net/video/541070871c7a8d9c'; $urls[] = 'http://www.guba.com/watch/2000821351'; $urls[] = 'http://www.veoh.com/videos/v4609719YfsCFpf'; $url_paths = array(); foreach ( $urls AS $id => $url ) { $url_paths[$id] = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); } print_r($url_paths); foreach ( $url_paths AS $paths ) { list( , ,$value) = explode('/', $paths, 3); echo $value; } ?> The above outputs the following: -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
