<div>
see code snippet below. I'm not really sure what parts are fixed... the xxxxx in your example, can they all change? ie different domains etc. <br />
<br />
if not - this will work. if yes, please be more specific about which parts are fixed and which are not<br />
<br />
//H<br />

<pre><code id="code-179204">&lt;?
$string = &quot;http://someplace.somewhere.com/photos/381120275_HWioi-Th.jpg&quot;;
preg_match(&quot;|.*/photos/(\d*)_(.*)-Th.jpg|&quot;,$string,$matches); 
echo $matches[1]; // outputs 381120275 
echo $matches[2]; // outputs HWioi  
?&gt;
</code></pre>
</div>


see code snippet below. I'm not really sure what parts are fixed... the xxxxx in your example, can they all change? ie different domains etc.

if not - this will work. if yes, please be more specific about which parts are fixed and which are not

//H


<?
$string = "http://someplace.somewhere.com/photos/381120275_HWioi-Th.jpg";
preg_match("|.*/photos/(\d*)_(.*)-Th.jpg|",$string,$matches); 
echo $matches[1]; // outputs 381120275 
echo $matches[2]; // outputs HWioi  
?>


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I'm working in PHP. I am trying to extract the '381120275' and the 'HWioi' from the below url. THe length of these items might change, but they will always be in the below format....<br />
<br />
<a href="http://someplace.somewhere.com/photos/381120275_HWioi-Th.jpg" rel="ugc">http://someplace.somewhere.com/photos/381120275_HWioi-Th.jpg</a><br />
like below:<br />
xxxxxxxxxx/NUMBER1_ID2-xxx<wbr />xxxxxxxxx.<wbr />XXX
</div>
</div>


I'm working in PHP. I am trying to extract the '381120275' and the 'HWioi' from the below url. THe length of these items might change, but they will always be in the below format....

http://someplace.somewhere.com/photos/381120275_HWioi-Th.jpg
like below:
xxxxxxxxxx/NUMBER1_ID2-xxxxxxxxxxxx.XXX

Extract 2 parts of URL

Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, and social network services using a wide variety of languages and standards, including the familiar HTML, JavaScript and jQuery, ASP and ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion, CSS, PHP, Flex and Flash, but also the implementation of a broad list of standards including XML, WSDL, SSDL, VoiceXML and many more.

Web Languages and Standards

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.