Question

what is the best way to retrieve id from android app link?

let say i have these link:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.prey&hl=en

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.prowl.wifiscanner&feature=related_apps

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.asurion.android.mobilerecovery.sprint&feature=related_apps

i just want to get the app id : com.prey or org.prowl.wifiscanner or com.asurion.android.mobilerecovery.sprint, whether or not user enter other params after the id

Answer 1

You can do that nicely with two lines:

$url = parse_url("https://market.android.com/details?id=com.prey&hl=en");
parse_str($url['query'], $vars);

echo $vars['id']; // => com.prey

Run it: http://codepad.org/BisV1HC0

Manual: parse_url, parse_str