quick regex help

kbc1

I am trying to gain a greater grasp on regex patterns but in the mean time, could someone help me out and edit my code below so it checks to see if either articles or news is part of the URI rather than just articles which is what I have at the moment?

	if (preg_match('/articles/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$matches)) {
		include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/articles');
		exit();
	}

Thanks in advance

Kudose

eregi("(articles|news)", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

xblue

Hi kbc1, the syntax for alternation is as above both for posix (ereg...) and pcre (preg_...) regular expressions. I think the posix functions will not be included in future versions (only within optional packages I think), so I'd definitely stay with pcre.

bradgrafelman

After I saw the speed comparsion between the ereg and preg functions (preg is MUCh faster), in addition to the functionality that the preg functions have... I'm hooked on 'em; I've never used ereg()/eregi() again.

Soo... here's what your code might look like:

if (preg_match('/articles|news/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$matches)) {

Note that this is a case-sensitive match, so "News" won't return a positive match. If you want it to be case-insensitive (as when using eregi() vs. ereg()), add an 'i' after the final '/' in the pattern.