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PHP SUBSTRING

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:14 am
by rajaboys
I have stored db URL like this ../../images/aprilfoolcards/lovefoolsday.gif, ../../images/navratri/navratri1.gif

want to know how to get category like aprilfoolcards, navratri in PHP.


Regards
Raja

Re: PHP SUBSTRING

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:45 am
by papa

Re: PHP SUBSTRING

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:55 am
by papa

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<?php
 
//$subject = "../../images/aprilfoolcards/lovefoolsday.gif";
$subject = "../../images/navratri/navratri1.gif";
$pattern = '#\.\./\.\./([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)#';
 
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
print_r($matches);
 

Re: PHP SUBSTRING

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:37 am
by josh
Store the string how you need it to be retreived, instead of storing the URL. You can generate the URL on each page view.

Re: PHP SUBSTRING

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:15 am
by php_east
just use explode ('/',$url);

Re: PHP SUBSTRING

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:22 am
by divito
A little more clarification would be nice.