Question

this is a code to catch all url in the POST and shorting them then insert each of them in row in mysql ….. but here it is inserting all the url in one row ??
so how can i make it catch the first url then insert it in database then go back for the second one and do the same..???

$urlinput=mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['url']); 
$pattren="/(http:\/\/)[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-z]*(.*)|(www)\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[com]*(.*)/";
preg_match_all( $pattren, $urlinput, $matches );
foreach($matches[0] as $match) {

$id=rand(10000,99999);
$shorturl=base_convert($id,20,36);
$sql = "insert into url values('$id','$match','$shorturl')";
mysql_query($sql,$con);
}

Answer 1

well, “(.*)” in your regex matches everything after it has found the beginning of a url. so if you’re expecting multiple urls in one string, or coma separated or what not, they will all be bundled together.

You need to be able to split your input first, and then validate that each element is a valid url before you pick it up for insertion.