RE: [PHP] Regex help

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Pruim [mailto:japruim@raoset.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:30 AM > To: PHP-General List > Subject: [PHP] Regex help > > Hey everyone, > > Not completely specific to php but I know you guys know regex's > better then I do! :) > > I am attempting to match purl.schreurprinting.com/jasonpruim112 to > purl.schreurprinting.com/p.php?purl=jasonpruim112 > > Here are my current matching patterns: > > RewriteRule /(.*) "/volumes/raider/webserver/ > documents/dev/schreurprinting.com/p.php?purl=$ > # RewriteRule /(*.) "/purl.schreurprinting.com/$1" > # RewriteRule /(mail.php?purl=*) "/ > purl.schreurprinting.com/mail.php?purl=$1" > > Yes I am doing this for apache's mod_rewrite, but my question is much > more specific to regex's at this point :) > > Any ideas where I am going wrong? it seems like it should be fairly > simple to do, but I don't know regex's at all :) http://www.regular-expressions.info ... that's how I learned. :) Anyway... your match might be something like: ^/([^/\.]+)/?$ And the rewrite... "/p.php?purl=$1" To break it down, the match is looking for "The beginning of the line, followed by a forward slash, followed by (begin capture group) 1 or more characters that are not a forward slash or a period (end capture group) followed by an optional forward slash, followed by the end of the line." The rewrite is fairly straightforward. I went 100% generic with the match due to your following e-mail that stated "jasonpruim112" could be any username. If "112" is necessary for the match, it would be more like: ^/([^/\.]+112)/?$ Hope this helps, Todd Boyd Web Programmer