Currently I want to pass links to my RSS feed parser from my postgreSQL database.
So far I was able to convert to an array of a single string the string reads like:
{"(\"(http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/rss.xml)\")","(\"(http://www.littoralsociety.org/index.php?format=feed&type=rss)\")","(\"(\"\"http://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/newsrel.rss \"\")\")"}
Only one string.
We want to remove the extra parantheses, quotes, backslashes and brackets so it reads like "http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/rss.xml", "http://www.littoralsociety.org/index.php?format=feed&type=rss" and so on.
We then plan splitting that into another array to pass into our parser.
I think str_replace is what I am looking for but I am having trouble of actually figuring out what to use to remove the extra quotes.
The following regex matches any url into an array, so there's no need to "splitting that into another array to pass into our parser"
<?php
$subject= '{"(\"(http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/rss.xml)\")","(\"(http://www.littoralsociety.org/index.php?format=feed&type=rss)\")","(\"(\"\"http://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/newsrel.rss \"\")\")"}';
preg_match_all('/\b(?:(?:https?):\/\/|www\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|$!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$]/ix', $subject, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($result[0])
OUTPUT:
Array
(
[0] => http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/rss.xml
[1] => http://www.littoralsociety.org/index.php?format=feed&type=rss
[2] => http://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/newsrel.rss
)