On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Lenin <lenin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:24 AM, VamVan<vamseevan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > contact/me - Contact US > > > > perfect match would be easy because I can exactly look for what I want. > > > > It becomes tricky when I introduce wild cards like contact/* for example. > It > > could also be contact/me/* > > > > How would I match patterns for this kind of relative matches.? Any ideas > > anyone? > > > Use preg_match function to do that. Ok here is how I solved it. When I have a url like www.xx.ccom/a/b/c for example, what I do is get an array of abc, ab, a Then I run a union query for all three combinations. So basically select * from {lookup_table} WHERE path = 'abc' UNION select ........ Then I just retrieve the first row mysql_fetch_object. That is what I need. Thanks Anyways V