Need to manipulate a URL

[subnet_rx]

I have urls coming in from an RSS feed. I need to change them to add one thing. index.php should be index2.php. What is the best way to do this?

[omnistar]

please elucidate your request. are you trying to change index.php to index2.php? I'm not advanced as a php developer, that said, is masking an option or is that something totally different?

[AnthonySterling]

preg_replace()?

<?php
echo preg_replace('~(?<=/)index.php~', 'index2.php', 'http://www.yourserver.com/index.php?foo=bar'); #http://www.yourserver.com/index2.php?foo=bar
?>

[markup2go]

Try using the substr function to split up the string into usable segments.

For instance:

$string = 'index.php';
$bit_to_add = '2';

$newstring = substr($string, 0, -4).$bit_to_add.substr($string, -4);

echo $newstring; 

Hope this helps. Here is the link to this function: www.php.net/substr.

[wheeler]

$url = str_replace('index.php', 'index2.php', $original_url); 

[subnet_rx]

Thanks, I got this done. The URL was actually being pulled in by another script and I had to figure out what it was doing and then insert the replace code. It all worked out a few minutes after 5, right on time to leave