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Rosamunda
Rosamunda

Reputation: 14990

RegEx pattern not working: Matching everything after the last part of a domain name in PHP

I want to match everything after a specific part of an url, and I cannot get this regEx to work:

$url = 'http://mywebsite.online/noticia/mi-noticia-copada';
$regexPattern =  '/^online(.*?)/';
preg_match($regexPattern, $eliminar, $matches);

I get an empty array in $matches.

I have this string:

http://mywebsite.online/noticia/mi-noticia-copada

And I want to get ths:

noticia/mi-noticia-copada

I have this other example string:

http://mywebsite.online/mi-otra-noticia-copada

And I want to get ths:

mi-otra-noticia-copada

So far the examples that I've read about won't work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (2)

Emma
Emma

Reputation: 27743

This expression might return the desired output:

^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?(?:[\w]+\.[\w]+)*\/(.*)$

If you wish to explore/simplify/modify the expression, it's been explained on the top right panel of regex101.com. If you'd like, you can also watch in this link, how it would match against some sample inputs.

Test

$re = '/^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?(?:[\w]+\.[\w]+)*\/(.*)$/m';
$str = 'http://mywebsite.online/noticia/mi-noticia-copada
http://mywebsite.online/mi-otra-noticia-copada
http://mywebsite.onlinem.ywebsite.online/noticia/mi-noticia-copada
http://mywebsite.online/mi-otra-noticia-copada
https://www.mywebsite.online/mi-otra-noticia-copada';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);

var_dump($matches);

Upvotes: 1

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 147216

Your problem is that you've anchored your regex to the start of string by using ^, so it will only match strings that start with online. You can change your regex to match .online as the end of the domain name instead:

$url = 'http://mywebsite.online/noticia/mi-noticia-copada';
$regexPattern =  '#^https?://[^/]+\.online/(.*)$#';
preg_match($regexPattern, $url, $matches);
echo $matches[1] . PHP_EOL;

$url = 'http://mywebsite.online/mi-otra-noticia-copada';
preg_match($regexPattern, $url, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

Output:

noticia/mi-noticia-copada
mi-otra-noticia-copada

Demo on 3v4l.org

Upvotes: 2

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