PHP: get a string inside a particular string

Question

I have a lot data into one string and i want to get some particular chunks of data.

Example of my data:

lorem ipsum fashjdf hsakj sdhsdaf something: 'data' jhjkhf akjh fa kjhjhk fdasjh kafsdj hkadf 
current database: 'databasename' alot of lorem ipsum data current username: 'username'
and jet more lorem ipsum data and so on

Now i want to get the string after "current database" and the one after "current username". BUT i want to assign them to the strings $database and $username.

I know there is a regular expression like

preg_match_all("/'(\w*)'/", $output, $result);

But in the lorem ipsum-data there is a lot of other text with quotes. And i just want to get only thoose two strings and assign them to there variables.

Does anyone please can help me to figure this out.

That pattern which you have is not even remotely going to match your those values — Hanky Panky
– Hanky Panky, Commented Jun 11, 2014 at 7:00

Gergo Erdosi · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-11 07:02:52Z

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You can use something like this:

$subject = "lorem ipsum fashjdf hsakj sdhsdaf something: 'data' jhjkhf akjh fa kjhjhk fdasjh kafsdj hkadf 
current database: 'databasename' alot of lorem ipsum data current username: 'username'
and jet more lorem ipsum data and so on";

preg_match("/current database: '([^']+)'/", $subject, $matches);
$database = $matches[1];

preg_match("/current username: '([^']+)'/", $subject, $matches);
$username = $matches[1];

var_dump($database);
var_dump($username);

answered Jun 11, 2014 at 7:02

Gergo Erdosi

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D3F Over a year ago

It works. Apparently the string had more spaces then it was showing me. So it was "current database: 'databasename'" thats why my regex didn't worked out.

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