I'm back again to show my ignorance once more.
I need assistance grabbing numbers that are in a URL in a specific spot. The rest of the URL may also contain numbers so I need to restrict it to grabbing the numbers from just one location, for example:
http://www.example.com/99-Kittens-1382/animals
I had been using ereg_replace to grab all the numbers but then realized:
1) ereg_replace is deprecated
2) Some URLs may have numbers in them elsewhere.
So in this case I ended up with 991382 instead of just the 1382 that I wanted.
The URL structure should always be that we have -####/ so I think we should be able to match based off of that. (dash, four numbers, forward slash)
I've always been terrible with regular expression matching. Can anyone help me out?
This is probably better done without the complication of regex:
$urlParts = parse_url($str);
$pathParts = explode('/', $urlParts['path']);
$firstParts = explode('-', $pathParts[1]);
$numberYouWant = array_pop($firstParts);