Hi all, I'm stumped on this one! I have a collection or URL's entered by the user and I want to grab the numerical value contained within the URL. The URL will always appear as and I'll always want to grab the numbers part (but the length of numbers may vary as they're incremented). Any help is appeciated as always!
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Extract/Pull numerical ID from string
- Thread starter Bravogolf
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<?php
function getInfo(){
$url = rtrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/');
$urlParts = explode('/', $url);
$lastPart = end($urlParts);
/*
if the pattern is always two letters followed by an arbitrary amount of numbers
then you do not need to use preg_match and you can instead use this
return substr($lastPart, 2);
otherwise:
*/
if(preg_match('/([0-9]+)/', $lastPart, $matches)){
return $matches[1];
} else {
return false;
}
}
?>
function getInfo(){
$url = rtrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/');
$urlParts = explode('/', $url);
$lastPart = end($urlParts);
/*
if the pattern is always two letters followed by an arbitrary amount of numbers
then you do not need to use preg_match and you can instead use this
return substr($lastPart, 2);
otherwise:
*/
if(preg_match('/([0-9]+)/', $lastPart, $matches)){
return $matches[1];
} else {
return false;
}
}
?>
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