Question

I’m trying to transform any URL in PHP and add a root folder onto it using regex.

Before:

http://domainNamehere.com/event/test-event-in-the-future/

After:

http://domainNamehere.com/es/event/test-event-in-the-future/

Any ideas?

Answer 1

A simple solution without regex:

$root_folder = 'es';
$url = "http://domainNamehere.com/event/test-event-in-the-future/";

$p = strpos($url, '/', 8);
$url_new = sprintf('%s/%s/%s', substr($url, 0, $p), $root_folder, substr($url, $p+1));

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EDIT: JavaScript solution is pretty much the same:

var root_folder = 'es';
var url = "http://domainNamehere.com/event/test-event-in-the-future/";

var p = url.indexOf('/', 8);
var url_new = url.substring(0,p) + '/' + root_folder + url.substring(p);

Of course, for a live application you should also check if p actually gets a valid value assigned (that means if the slash is found) because you might have an invalid url in your input or empty string.