I have seen two similar questions on SO here & here but still stuck...
I have a string of filepath like catalog/reviews/249532-20691-5369.jpg and i want to get numbers only like 249532-20691-5369.
I am using the following approach:
$id1 = explode('/', $image['img_link']);
$id2 = explode('.', $id1[2]);
echo $id2; //output 249532-20691-5369
Is there any best approach to do this task in controller.
echo basename($image['img_link'], '.jpg');
an alternative if you have different file extensions:
echo pathinfo ( $image['img_link'] , PATHINFO_FILENAME );
In your case, you could use a simple regular expression.
([^\/]+)\.jpg$
And in php this would look like this
preg_match('/([^\/]+)\.jpg$/', $image['img_link'], $m);
echo $m[1];
If you need it for any extension, you could use this
([^\/]+)\.[^\.]+$
So how does this work:
We start from the right, so we add an anchor to the line ending $. From there on, we want the extension, which is practically everything expect a point [^\.]+. Whats left is the file name, which is everything from the point until you reach the slash [^\/]+. This part is also enclosed in a capturing group () to access it in the end with $m[1].
explode returns an array, so you need to access the first element:
$ids = explode('/', $image['img_link'];
$id2 = explode('.', end($ids));
echo $id2[0];
Alternatively, you can just use basename() instead of the first explode() (assuming you always have .jpg extension):
echo basename($image['img_link'], '.jpg');
You could use Regex
This pattern would work:
(\d{6}-\d{5}-\d{4})
Breakdown:
\d means "Any Digit"{#} means a count of # values, and of course the dashes between the numbers.Code:
$string = "catalog/reviews/249532-20691-5369.jpg";
preg_match('(\d{6}-\d{5}-\d{4})', $string, $result);
echo $result[0];
Output:
249532-20691-5369
