[RESOLVED] Preg Match

[luqman93]

i don't understand why this doesn't work.

I want to match
/games/(alphanumeric)/(alphanumeric) $SERVER[request_uri']
/games/(alphanumeric)/ $SERVER[request_uri']
/games/ $_SERVER[request_uri']

but so far with my code only the second one works.

if (preg_match("|games/([a-z]+)/([a-z,0-9]+)|",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))
{

$css_main = ('../../../styles/css_main.css');

}
elseif (preg_match("|games/([a-z,0-9]+)|",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))

{

$css_main = ('../../styles/css_main.css');

}
elseif (preg_match("|games|",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))

{

$css_main = ('../styles/css_main.css');

}

Help please. 🙂

[NogDog]

Without knowing what the input data looks like that you are trying to match, I'm not sure I can provide an answer. However, from looking at the results you are apparently trying to achieve, if the intent is to specify the location of the style file in a link tag, you could just give it a path relative to the web document root instead of trying to figure out the path relative to the current script:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/css_main.css">

(In HTML, a path starting with a "/" means the following path is relative to the site's web document root.)

[luqman93]

With my quest in mastering PHP and creating a dynamic PHP website I overlooked the old simple methods of HTML.

Thanks. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

[NogDog]

It happens a lot: we get an idea of how to implement something, then get ourselves buried in figuring out how to make that implementation work rather than spending a little more time thinking about whether there might be a simpler way to do it.

Of course, when I say "we," I don't mean to imply that such a thing ever happens to me. :rolleyes: