enter code here I'm trying to get out ID from link:
www.imdb.com/title/tt5807628/ - > tt5807628
My code in javascript:
var str = "www.imdb.com/title/tt5807628/";
var n = str.search("e/tt");
var res = str.substring(n+2, n+30);
var ukos = res.search("/");
var last = res.substring(0, ukos);
I would like to get the same effect in PHP, how to do it?
Based off my comment here, the following code will just give you the ID:
$id = explode("/", "www.imdb.com/title/tt5807628/")[2];
We use the explode(delimiter, string) function here to break the string at each of the slashes, which creates an index of strings that looks like this:
array (
0 => "www.imdb.com"
1 => "title"
2 => "tt5707627"
)
So, as you can see array index 2 is our ID, so we select that after we break the string (which is the [2] at the end of the variable declaration), leaving us with a variable $id that contains just the ID from the link.
edit:
You could also use parse_url before the explode, just to ensure that you dont run into http(s):// if the link changes due to user input. - Keja
$id = explode("/", parse_url("www.imdb.com/title/tt5807628/", PHP_URL_PATH))[2];
With explode function then you can see each part by looping through the array
$varArray = explode( '/', $var );
You can use preg_match as well:
preg_match('~www\.imdb\.com/title/([^/]*)/~', 'www.imdb.com/title/tt5807628/', $matches);
$id = $matches[1];