Can't get regex to match properly - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**SGBoise** · 04-28-2008, 10:57 PM

I am trying to match this uri. Also I want 3 to match as id and 45 in pictures45.html as pagenumber.
[HTML]/category/3/pictures45.html[/HTML]
With this regex I got to match the category and id.

PHP Code:

  preg_match("/^\/category\/(?P<id>\d+)/", $url, $matches);

With this regex I got to match the pagenumber.

PHP Code:

  preg_match("/(?P<pagenumber>\d).html/", $url, $matches);

I figured I can combine both the regex and it should work but I can't get it to work.

PHP Code:

  preg_match("/^\/category\/(?P<id>\d+)(?P<pagenumber>\d).html/", $url, $matches);

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks guys

**xrvel** · 05-02-2008, 01:11 AM

Try this

PHP Code:

  <?php
$url = '/category/3/pictures45.html';

preg_match('/\/category\/([0-9]+)\/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)/i', $url, $match);
echo('<pre>' . print_r($match, true) . '</pre>');

$id = $match[1];
$pagenumber = $match[3];

echo ('<p> ID = ' . $id . '</p>');
echo ('<p> Page number = ' . $pagenumber . '</p>');
?>

**SGBoise** · 05-02-2008, 11:07 AM

You are awesome. Thanks.