how to split an url in 2 parts?? (i dont need parse_url)

kejo

hello
i would like to split:

www.site.com/page.php?q=SPLITHERE&cat=0&others=1

into

www.site.com/page.php?q=

and

&cat=0&others=1

how can i do that?
i tried with explode, but it didnt work.

please help 🙂

NogDog

One way:

<?php
$text = "www.site.com/page.php?q=SPLITHERE&cat=0&others=1";
if(preg_match('/^([^=]+=)[^&]*(&.*)?/', $text, $matches))
{
   echo $matches[1]."<br />\n".$matches[2];
}
else
{
   user_error("Match failed");
}

kejo

what if i use:

<?php
$text = "www.site.com/page.php?q=SPLITHERE&cat=0&others=1";
if(preg_match('/*SPLITHERE*/', $text, $matches))
{
   echo $matches[1]."<br />\n".$matches[2];
}
else
{
   user_error("Match failed");
} 

?>

but i am not so familiar with regex ..

laserlight

Why do you want to do this? You could use [man]parse_url/man under normal circumstances, but this looks strange since you want to parse the URL such that the URL up to part of the query string is in one token and the rest of the query string is in the other token.

kejo

i want it to find the word SPLITHERE and split the url according to that word 🙂

laserlight

i want it to find the word SPLITHERE and split the url according to that word

Why do you want to do that?

Weedpacket

In that case explode should work. explode('SPLITHERE', $url). Either your use of explode was wrong or the description of what you want is wrong 🙂

kejo

kejo wrote:
how can i do that?
i tried with explode, but it didnt work.

please help 🙂

explode seems not to work with strings containing &

bradgrafelman

'&' has no effect on explode. As Weedpacket says, you must've implemented it incorrectly one way or another - show us what you tried.