I'm trying to use preg_match to return all the URL's that are inclosed in " " in a page source code. The code I am using is preg_match('"http://(.+?)\"', $code, $matches); And I am getting the following error: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier '/' in .... on line 13 Please help me. This is driving me m...
I need a PHP 5 regular expression for the following date/time format: 10 Jul 2010 15:00 (2 digits space 3 characters space 4 digits space 2 digits colon 2 digits) Character case does not matter, and the only allowed input is a-z, 0-9, space, colon Thanks in advance. ...
I have a string that contains this (and another things): <b>SINOPSIS:</b><br/> Text text text and mooore text...<br/> I need a reg-ex to get the text between those first two <br/> tags. Thanks... Note: There are more <br/> tags. I need the first occurrence only.. I will be using PHPs preg_match() function. ...
I need a regular expression that will allow only a to z and 0 to 9. I came across the function below on this site, but it allows a few symbols thru (#.-). How should it be done if it has to allow only a to z (both upper and lower case) and 0 to 9? I'm scared to edit it since I know nothing about regular expressions. Also is this regular...
function isUserID($username) { if (preg_match('/^[a-z\d_]{2,20}$/i', $username)) { return true; } else { return false; } } Easy one.., i have this, can you explain what it checks for? I know it checks if the username have length between 2-20, what more? Thanks ...
Hi, Im kind of stuck capturing a group with preg_match() in php. This is my pattern: <ns2:uniqueIds>(.*)<\/ns2:uniqueIds> And this is the source: <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><env:Header/><env:Body><ns2:ListResponse xmlns:ns2="http://censored"><ns2:uniqueIds>censored&l...
I'm writing some autosuggest functionality which suggests page names that relate to the terms entered in the search box on our website. For example typing in "rubbish" would suggest "Rubbish & Recycling", "Rubbish Collection Centres" etc. I am running into a problem that some of our page names include macrons - specifically the macron ...
Hi! I'm using preg_match for the first time but I'm stuck even before I got some code... With the help from RegExr I have figured out that I need to use this expression: /\(.*M\)\s.*?:/gm What I need help with is how I gonna use this to place<b></b>around the matched text. Gratefull for help. ...
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- Vertical1_437 = "false-2010"; ShowAdHereBanner1437 =" true"; RepeatAll1437 = "true"; NoFollowAll1437 ="true"; //--> </script> I'm trying to get the 2010 part out of the false-2010. i want it to echo 2010 only.. Thanks for the help. this was what i started with and got stuck <?php $get2010 = pr...
Hi. I am working on validating username, pass and email with php. I need to be sure I get it right so nobody can bypass the login page. This is the values: $email=$_POST['email']; $username=$_POST['uname']; $passwd=$_POST['pass']; $passwd2=$_POST['passcopy']; So far I have email validation: if(!(preg_match("/^[\.A-z0-9_\-\+]+[@][A-...
I'm trying to get the post-id my posts. this is the format it is in--> postid-785645 the numbers are randomly generated. <?php $mysite = "http://example.com"; $wholepage = @file_get_contents($mysite); // I want to use preg_match to echo just the numbers. out of the whole page. // Basically i'm trying to have is search the whole page fo...
This may be a lame question but I am a total novice with regular expressions. I have some text data in the format: Company Name: Name of the company, place. Company Address: Some, address, here. Link: http://www.somelink.com Now, I want to use a regex to split these into an array of name : value pairs. The regular expression...
I am trying to extract all substrings in a string that is between the strings /* and */. I know this will probably need to be done with regular expressions however I'm having a hard time getting the correct regex since the star character is actually used to symbolise repeated characters. I'm am trying to use the preg-match method in PHP ...
I'm trying to learn some basic regular expression and having a hard time getting it to work. What is wrong with this? if (preg_match("[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,}", $url)) { It must be something to do with my technique since I can hardly get any examples to work. ...
I'm going through my code to replace any instances I'm using the ereg() function - which I was using for matching regex inside a string. I could use a little direction, if someone has a better method than what I'm using. Here's my old "currency validation" script: function valid_currency($number){ if(ereg('^[0-9]+\.[0-9]{2}$'...
Hi, I want to have the regular expression that makes sure the beginning of the string contains 'http://' and '/' and the end. This is a longer version I came up with, if(!preg_match("/(^http:\/\//", $site_http)) { $error = true; echo '<error elementid="site_http" message="site_http - Your link appears to be invalid. Please confirm ...
I have a regular expression that I have written in order to extract values that a user enters and replace some height and width values and keep the urls. This is so it can be safely added to a database. This is what I have so far (just trying to get the preg_match to return a TRUE value) $test ='<object height="81" width="100%"> <param...
Hi all, I have question that seems simple to you all but can't really get it. encounter warning till now. May I know how can i accept a string with integers 0-9 and alpha a-zA-Z but minimum 5 characters and maximum 15 characters with preg_match. Thanks ...
I have the string page-24 and want to replace 24 by any other number. The script is written in PHP and uses preg_replace, however this problem should be independent from the programming language. My match pattern is: (.*-)(\d*) The replace pattern would be: $1[insert number here]$2 The backreferences work, but I cannot insert a numbe...
Hi there. First time i post here and hope somebody will be able to help me. I have a file whos numbering starts at 610 and goes on to 1019. I want to use PHP's preg_match() function to start the numbering from 0 and go on till 410. Here is some code i've been working on. But i cant get the function to replace the numbers. I don't know ...