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Apr 05.2006

Hi.. I have various URL’s in a database that I want to trim before I display them. I was using the SELECT RIGHT(URL,8) method, however this is only useful if I want to keep the final 8 characters. I actually want the characters at the end of the string that immediately follow an “=” sign, but they will very with length, depending on the URL.

eg.URL1. /index…=id=24495659
eg.URL2. /index…=id=the_one_and_only

Does anyone have any ideas about how I might tackle this?

Many thanks,

Peter

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@rch10007Apr 05.2006 — read this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

i can't help much more than that because i am still trying to understand this stuff myself.
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@NogDogApr 05.2006 — [code=php]
$test = "http://www.somewhere.com/index.html?id=testing123";
$url = parse_url($test);
parse_str($url['query'], $urlQuery);
echo $urlQuery['id'];
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