how do i removes slashes from end of urls? 1

[jasonindus]

if a url is submitted like this...

http://www.site.com/

i would like to remove the slashes from the end so the url is submitted into the database like this...

http://www.site.com

cheers!

 

[sleipnir214]

There are several ways to do it. One is:

<?php
$a = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.site.com/';[/URL]
$a = preg_replace ('@/$@', '', $a);
print $a;
?>

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[booeyOH]

Try this:

$new_url = eregi_replace("^(.*)/$", "\\1", $orig_url);

 

[jpadie]

or avoiding regex

function cleanse ($url){
 if (substr($url, -1,1) === "/"){
  return substr($url, 0, strlen($url) - 1));
 } else {
  return $url;
 }  
}

 

[feherke]

Hi

I see no reason to do that, but :

$url=ereg_replace("/$","",$url);

Feherke.

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[feherke]

Hi

Well, I think I was slow. Sorry, it is Friday evening...

Feherke.

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[vacunita]

I Agree with jpadie's solution. PHP manual clearly states that regex should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. In this case, a simple substr, with an if statement to check whether the last character is indeed a slash, seems to do it nicely. And I'm pretty sure performance wise its faster than a regex.

Star for you. jpadie

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[feherke]

Hi

Certainly is faster ! ;-)

[small]function cleanse ($url){
 if (substr($url, -1,1) === "/"){[/small]
  return substr[red][b]([/b][/red]$url, 0, strlen[green][b]([/b][/green]$url[green][b])[/b][/green] - 1[red][b])[/b][/red][blue][b])[/b][/blue];
[small] } else {
  return $url;
 }  
}[/small]

Feherke.

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