Question

Using php how to split the usernames,passwords,datadasename,hostname,etc into a variable.

For Example:

$db =
“databasename://username:password@hostname/dbname”

$
databasename = databasename

$user = username

$pass = password

$host = hostname

$dbname = dbname

I have tried with grouping in regular expression. but I don’t know how to assign the group values into the variable.

preg_match(“(^([a-z]?)://([a-z]?):([a-z]?)@[a-z]?)/([a-z]*?)$)”, $db , $matches);

Answer 1

You can do something like:

$db = "databasename://username:password@hostname/dbname";
if (preg_match("~^([a-z]+)://([a-z]+):([a-z]+)@[a-z]+/([a-z]+)\$~i",
        $db , $matches))
   list($ignore, $databasename, $username, $password, $dbname) = $matches;

var_dump($databasename);
var_dump($username);
var_dump($password);
var_dump($dbname);

which gives:

string(12) "databasename"
string(8) "username"
string(8) "password"
string(6) "dbname"

Or you can use named groups.