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Shawn Palmer
Shawn Palmer

Reputation: 31

Path parsing with PHP and Regex

I need some help with a PHP based path parser, I am trying to create a path router that grabs arguments form the given string and returns an keyed array containing the results. I can do it inside of a whole loop where each area is broken down and tested seperatly but I feel that there should be a way to do it as a signaler regex that then loops though the results

users/<id:(\d+)>/ = users/1 || users/42 != users/bob
    returns args['id'] = 1 || args['id'] = 42

user/register
    args = []

name/<fname:([a-zA-Z]{1,10})>/<lname:([a-zA-Z]{1,10})> = name/bob/smith || name/jordan/freeman
    args['fname'] = bob     || args['fname'] = jordan
    args['lname'] = smith   || args['lname'] = freeman

Upvotes: 0

Views: 78

Answers (1)

Shawn Palmer
Shawn Palmer

Reputation: 31

Named captures is what I was looking for, just need to transform my markup or redo the patterning. http://www.regular-expressions.info/named.html

Here is what I can up with, IDK if it will help anyone else?

$str = 'user/1/';
$reg = "user\/(?P<ID>\d+)\/";

var_dump(testPath($str, $reg));

$str = 'user/bob/smith/';
$reg = "user\/(?P<fname>[a-zA-Z]+)\/(?P<lname>[a-zA-Z]+)\/";

var_dump(testPath($str, $reg));

function testURL($url, $reg){
    if(preg_match("/^$reg$/", $url, $matches)){
        return $matches;

    }else{
        return null;
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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