Fixing URL strings with reg expression?

PHP
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Hey guys,

I’ve tried learning this stuff but I’m so bad at it. Was hoping you all could help me.

What would be the best way to fix a string that is a URL with …/ in it?

For example,
if a url is

http://www.example.com/foo/index.html

how would I fix it to be

http://www.example.com/foo/index.html

??

Thanks very much guys.

2

I’m confused as both links are exactly the same

3

Weird…
The first link is supposed to be:

http://www.example.com/foo/bar/".."/index.html

Looks like Sitepoint automatically reformats URLs that have relative path things in them, like “…/” which takes you to the previous directory. That’s why I have the quotes around it in the above code block.

Anyway, what Sitepoint does is exactly what I am trying to do! If it gets the above URL in this post, it strips the “…/” as well as the “bar/”

4

Found a nice regular expression online finally. I’m a bad searcher, sorry!

(ignore the double quotes in the url)


<?php 
$p = 'http://example.com/foo/bar/".."/index.html';

$p = preg_replace('/\\w+\\/\\.\\.\\//', '', $p);

echo $p; // outputs http://example.com/foo/index.html

?>