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Passing an URL as a paramter using URL rewriting (apache)
I have created a .htaccess file in which I try to rewrite certain URL's. My goals is to pass an URL to another script as a parameter. It kind of works, but I end up with URL's that only contain one ...
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3answers
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PHP how to retrieve a string inbetween 2 characters? [duplicate]
I'm having trouble with this, I did find a couple of reg ex examples but I can't seem to get them to work for me.
$string = '1. A post-hardcore band from Brazil 2. A rock band from Sweden';
I need ...
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1answer
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PHP Regex does not match special characters
I have a old script for password encryption which I'm trying to bring back to life.
This script is responsible for encryption/decryption for RSA Public Key.
The code I'm presenting here is ...
0
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0answers
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How to get data from a table on a webpage in PHP
I am trying to get data from four rows each with two rows from a webpage. After some reading around I have tried the following code;
<?PHP
require('simple_html_dom.php');
$ch = curl_init();
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2answers
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PHP - A better way to get these values?
$image= "some-name-of-my-image-640x480-123.jpg"
I need to extract 640x480 and 123.
What is working for me right now is:
list($dirname, $basename, $extension, $filename) = ...
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0answers
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Using regex with Elastica
I have been using elastisearch trough elastica recently and I am having problems using the regexp.
Here is my problem:
I need to find all instances of my "Foo" entity with the "name" NOT begin by a ...
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2answers
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Regular Expression with PHP [on hold]
I have a string that looks like this
"Some text with things in it
This mail is sent via contact form on http://domain.com/file.php"
I want a regular expression to get domain.com only from the ...
1
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1answer
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Split string by multiple (more specific) delimiters in PHP
I know this question has been asked a million times, though I can't really find the answer for my question.
I read the answer from this question How to split a string by multiple delimiters in PHP?
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1answer
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regex birthday validation
I have a regex which validate birthday:
if(!preg_match('/^(0?[1-9]|1[012])[- .\/](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- .\/](19|20)?[0-9]{2}$/', $_POST['bday'])
{
echo 'enter your birthdate in a valid ...
1
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2answers
19 views
get a string php regex match
here is my string
0 12 10 0 5 0 albert 126 al br t 881 alert 58 a lbr t 317 apart 251 al b rt 284 ambit 165 a lb rt 9 album 93 a l br t 881 10 6 13 0 einstein 92 en stein 219 epstein 8 e n stein 335 ...
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1answer
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Regex does not work while parsing price
I am using regex to parse the currency in this format. I extract the price by scraping amazon.com
$current_price=$doc['#current-price']->text();
$this->rawPrice=$current_price;//Value =$9.65
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3answers
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regex writes on “empty variable” & “not empty variable”
I'm quite exploring regex. All my regex are working using a trial and error. I'm very confused of writting for the empty variables.
i have this regex:
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2answers
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Generic regular expression [on hold]
Ok, let's start again, more details now.
I fetch my_meta['lieux']. At this moment, it looks like to
string(176) "Paris:10/06/2013->link:20/09/2013->link
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0
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1answer
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Nasty regex and strange string behavior
I've been struggling with this problem for quite some time now and I just can't seem to find a solution. I have the following regular expression for matching URLs which appears to work flawlessly ...
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1answer
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Linkify text with also www.*** PHP [duplicate]
I was arguing with many regexp to find one supporting simply www.*.com url without the need to put http:// before.
At present I'm using:
$text= preg_replace("/(^|[\n ...
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2answers
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Regex to convert usernames within text to links to their profile [on hold]
Using this regex, I can find all usernames within the body of my comments and change them into hyperlinks:
$body = preg_replace('/\B\@([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20})/', '<a ...
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votes
1answer
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Regex match HTML tag and attributes [duplicate]
I'm trying to match html tag name along with it's attributes. In the example below, I am trying to match div, class, style and id.
$html='<div class="nav" style="float:left;" id="navigation">';
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4answers
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Regex variable missing
I don't really know how they're called, the matches between brackets but variables seems legit. Anyway I have set up a custom ( or not so much ) markup to save links into my databases so that they'll ...
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1answer
34 views
regex find and replace 'input tags'
I'm quite new to regular expression which I have trial and error test.
How can I replace:
<input name="token" type="text" id="test" value="">
like it will first search for the id="test" if ...
0
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1answer
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PHP : Asking about the way preg_match works
I'm working on adding values into a template and have a problem.
Here is my template
TIME : |time,hour|:|time,min|:|time,sec| <br />
ADDING BLOCK 'TIME' ...<br />
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1answer
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Regular Expression Wordpress redirection plugin
I'm using the Redirection plugin to Wordpress, but can't get this regex to work. I'm not an expert on regex at all, so I guess I'm doing something wrong.
/(.*)/(.*)/?rel=old
/$1/$2/?rel=new
When ...
1
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1answer
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HTACCESS file to redirect all pages to maintenance.php but not if /admin is accesses
I have the following code which works perfectly for redirecting any page requested back to maintenance.php. However i would like the rule to ignore /admin as this is my admin panel that still needs to ...
0
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3answers
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Regexp for validating simple pattern
I am trying to create regular expression that will validate simple patterns. Here a lists of valid and invalid patterns.
Valid:
foo, foo.bar, foo.bar.baz,
*, *.foo, foo.*, *.foo.*, *.foo.bar, ...
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2answers
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regex declare a 'default value' if a tag is empty
I have a regular expression which is it returns anything inside the html tag with id="test"
ex:
<span id="test">Hello World</span>
<.*?id="pStyle".*?>(.*?)</.*?>
it ...
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2answers
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php regex preg_match on a variable containing a url
I'm trying to run a regex on a url to extract all the segments after the host. I can't get it working when the host segment is in a variable and i'm not sure how to get it working
// this works
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2answers
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Having trouble with preg_match pinterest username url
Please help the statement i am using for matching pinterest username url is
$url = http://pinterest.com/username
preg_match("|^http(s)?://pinterest.com/(.*)?$|i", $url);
but preg_match result are ...
0
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2answers
47 views
php select last 5 or 6 numbers with/without space
My data looks like:
John 123 45
Doe 67890
Elly Clarkson 111 22
Chris Man Wu 44455
some92 thing91103
make1too 12120
make1too45100
How can I get last 5 or 6 digits with or without a space between?
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1answer
24 views
preg_replace every custom chars but URLs
hi i'm using WordPress and i want to replace the following
$items = array( ".","?","!",",","؟","،",":","™","*" );
so i made up this function
function Huemix_content_filter_chars($content){
$items ...
0
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1answer
45 views
What is the best way to parse text and code in my PHP blog?
Usually, I use nl2br() and it does come out just like it's entered in the textarea, but this causes a problem when using bbcode or posting code in <code> or <pre> tags, since it adds extra ...
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1answer
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PHP Wordpress Shortcode Regex embedded in html
I am trying to parse out images from a wordpress post with get_the_content().
It returns a bunch of html and multiple lightbox shortcodes:
<ul>
<li>testing1</li>
...
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1answer
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matching complete word using replace in php
I am using replace function in PHP to replace and underline word,
$replace='<span style="font-weight:bold; border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;" >'.$term.'</span>';
$post = ...
0
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2answers
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Regex attribute out of tag
I'm trying to regex src attribute (without its content/value) only and replace it with something else.
It has to verify the HTML tag also (img in the example).
Test data example:
<img ...
0
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2answers
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regex validation cyrillic domain
I need to write a regular expression to validate Latin and Cyrillic domain name.
I wrote this function, but it does not work with Cyrillic domains.
Tell me what's wrong?
function isDomain($url)
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3answers
32 views
convert short youtube url to full url
Hi all i am looking for a simple way to check if a string equals an url like this:
http://youtu.be/WWQZ046NeUA
To convert it to a proper youtube url like this:
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1
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1answer
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Regex word boundary alternatives inside parentheses does not work?
There is something I could not understand with the word boundary.
$input="157-XYZ";
preg_match("/[^\d+\-]\bRDS|xyz|ABC\b/i", $input, $output);
The above preg_match matches XYZ in $input.
However, ...
1
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1answer
39 views
Extract a string between two words
I want to extract hash from string below which is e5e1af55bad959546ec7608cc8685fe67bc5426e
$word1 = 'btih:';
$word2 = '&dn';
$magnet = ...
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2answers
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php regex for last number before file extension
Anyone know how to use preg_match to get last digit given this:
images/listings/listings_id_15_4.pngor
images/listings/listings_id_15_4.jpg
The extension may be different, I only need to find the ...
3
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2answers
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.htaccess multiple variable rewriting
I managed to put together .htaccess like this and it is working fine
RewriteRule ^$ /splash [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.examle.com/$1 ...
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1answer
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.htaccess RewriteRule performance (large amount of RegEx)
I am using the following .htaccess rules to rewrite multiple urls on my website:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^privacy(\w|\s|\+|-|&|;|#)+policy/?$ index.php?page=privacy [NC]
RewriteRule ...
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1answer
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PHP regex to parse wordpress shortcode attribute
I am trying to regex all lightbox wordpress shortcodes and receive their 'link' attribute.
Example:
[lightbox link="http://www.test.com/photo1.jpg" width="150" align="none" title="photo 1" ...
2
votes
6answers
49 views
Regex Match Replace
Im trying to figure out a regex pattern that will look through array below and replace
any matching that has a '+' in it with emtpy/null, so if it has a positive number in it then make it null.
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0
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1answer
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How to determine if a string is a valid v4 UUID?
I'm making a validator based on UUID generated by client browser, i use this to identify a certain type data that the user sends; and would like to validate that the UUID that client sends it is in ...
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7answers
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PHP Regex match between two patterns
I'm attempting to parse through a log file containing numerous traces, some of which have multiple lines to them.
Example:
[trace-123] <request>This is a log line</request>
[trace-124] ...
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4answers
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Search two words in string to verify that one word precedes the other word
After a lot of googling, asking question on here. I want to be able to search a string to verify that one word precedes the other (in php), but not necessarily adjacent to each other. I was so sure ...
0
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3answers
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Regular Expression doesnt work in a right way
first of all, I dont have any knowledge in modifying regex..
I just got this code from some forum..
$urlregex = '~(?:http?)://[a-z0-9+$_-]+(?:\\.[a-z0-9+$_-]+)*' .
...
0
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5answers
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Redirect all URL calls to a particular php file
Any http request (e.g. to pdf) should be redirected to validate.php so if you call an URL (e.g. http:...../whatever/whatever/1.pdf), htaccess should execute validate.php instead.
I went through many ...
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3answers
32 views
regexp replace between some slashes
I need help with write regex pattern for replace my variable.
Input data
strings for parse:
/hello/world/1111/2/3/4
/hello/world/2222/2/3/4
/hello/world/3333/2/3/4
/hello/world/3333
...
0
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1answer
42 views
PHP Regex Match of Anchor Tag
I am trying to use REGEX to split a string apart while maintaining the delimeters. I wish to split a very large and unpredictable string apart via anchor tags. I am using HTML tidy to ensure the tags ...
3
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4answers
35 views
Preg_match exclude word from text
I have string:
FirstWord word2 word3 wrongWord word4 lastWord
Want to select string starts with FirstWord, ends with lastWord and doesn't contain wrongWord.
For first and last I have:
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2answers
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Understanding preg_match formula
I anyhow got my stuff working with following line, but I really could not understand.
if (preg_match_all('/[^=]*=([^;@]*)/', shell_exec("/home/technoworld/Desktop/test/b '$test'"),$matches))
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