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[csnyder]

On 8/6/07, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> It so happens I'm working on a CMS component and the 'Many pages one
> script' discussion has inspired me to add mod_rewrite capability. I
> have a catch-all RewriteRule that just sends everything through
> index.php at the top of which I have a "handler table" that maps the
> REQUEST_URI to a handler class. I'm using preg_match to do the match
> and collect the parameters.
>
> So an example regex looks like:
>
>   '@/news/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)@'
>
> This works fine with REQUEST_URIs like:
>
>   /news/2007/10/31
>
> but it does not match any of the following:
>
>   /news/2007/10
>   /news/2007
>   /news
>
> I would like to match these. For example, if the day parameter is not
> provided the match array returned by preg_match should simply have one
> fewer elements.
>
> So how does one designate parts of a preg_match expression as optional?
>
> Mike

How optional? Why use preg_match at all?

list( $app, $year, $month, $day ) = explode( '/', $uri );


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Chris Snyder
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