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ATLChris
ATLChris

Reputation: 3296

Extract a portion of a url

I am trying to extract a portion of a URL using regex.

An example of my url would be:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=food

Using php, how could I extract the data in the q variable or the sourceid variable?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 86

Answers (2)

nickb
nickb

Reputation: 59699

Don't use a regex for this. Instead, use parse_url() and parse_str().

$params = array();
$url= "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=food";
$url_query = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($url_query, $params);
echo $params['q']; // Outputs food

Demo

Upvotes: 7

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219794

A perfect tutorial for what you're trying to accomplish:

$parts = parse_url('http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=food');
parse_str($parts['query'], $query);
echo $query['q'];

Upvotes: 1

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