I'm trying to do some string matching in PHP. I have the following url string in a variable:
phones/gift.nintendo-3ds/handset.blackberry-9790.html
I want remove the /gift.nintendo-3ds
from the above, but the gift will always be different.
Any ideas? I want the url variable to look like this after each call different gifts:
phones/handset.blackberry-9790.html
Thanks
Try with:
$input = 'phones/gift.nintendo-3ds/handset.blackberry-9790.html';
$output = preg_replace('(gift\.[^/]*\/)', '', $input);
preg_replace('/\/gift\.[^/]*/', '', $url);
Matches /gift. then anything till the next slash and replaces it with blank.
You could split it apart, remove the second part you do not want to keep and then concat it again:
$parts = explode('/', $url, 3);
unset($parts[1]);
$result = implode('/', $parts);
This is not using any regular expression as you might have thought about but probably tells you about some other useful functions.
Demo: http://codepad.org/a1pNW8J6
A regex variant could be:
echo preg_replace('~^([^/]+)(/[^/]+)~', '$1', $url);