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Retrieve part of a Typed URL into a variable

Hi folks, I'm in need of help with the following situation:

I'm making a php page that retrieves the number typed after my domain from the user and uses it to verify it against a certain variable.

So what I would need would be the number typed in something like the following:

www.mydomain.com/123456

Is there a way to retrieve the typed number? I want the number and the page or folder doesn't exist since it is a variable...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

leakim971

$mydomain = "www.mydomain.com/123456";
$pattern = '/\D\d+/';
preg_match($pattern, $mydomain, $matches);
$number = substr($matches[0], 1);
echo $number;

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or :

$mydomain = "www.mydomain.com/123456";
$number = explode("/", $mydomain);
echo $number[1];

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Ray Paseur

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Lukasz Chmielewski

I think this would be more complicated than retrieving the value from the string.
Your address may be like www.mydomain.com/123/456/abc/def
how do you want - and what variables - to get them ?

Here's the little function

        function getMyURL(){
            $host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
            $self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
            $par = !empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) ? $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : null;
            $url = !empty($par) ? "http://$host$self?$par" : "http://$host$self";
            return $url;
        }

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Then you can explode it with "/" and get all variables in an array.

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leakim971

Check this :
http://www.klauskomenda.com/code/rewrite-rules-practical-examples/#item1