Any regex masters out there able to help with this one?

[darkus]

I want to take a vbulletin thread URL ==> http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198928

and extract the threadID# which are the digits after "t="

Now sometimes vbulletin goes crazy and adds in some characters after the t=digits in the form of an &

so for example http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198928&8384

I would only want to extact the 198928 and not the 8384

Anyone good with regex can help with the pregmatch for this?

thanks!

[laserlight]

You probably only need [man]parse_url/man in conjunction with [man]parse_str/man.

EDIT:
For example:

<?php
$url = 'http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198928&8384';
parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY), $query_string);
echo htmlspecialchars($query_string['t']);

[darkus]

wow that worked perfectly!!

Thanks so much