preg_replace (this should be easy??)

Hi Folks,

I've spent way to long on this and probably cuz I've not slept well the past few nights. But I'm stuck.

I've looked at the preg_replace php manual, and now I'm even more confused.

Here is what I want it to do:

I want to take "./uploads/wecanhelp" whic is the contents of $folder
and make it into just "/wecanhelp"

I've tried a number of things but I'm back to my original thought. I've looked through the forum and I'm sure in here some where is my answer but here I am asking for help in here.
this is what I'm back to:

$data = "./uploads/wecanhelp";// contents of $folder
echo "$data <br>";// just echo out something
$find ="./uploads/"; //this is what I'm looking for
$replace ="/"; //this is what I want to replace it with.
echo preg_replace ($find, $replace, $data); //this should give me my result

Any help much appreciated.

Regards
Rick

 

preg_replace is just for regular expressions (which are not needed in this case).

Leave your current code as it is, just use str_replace() instead of preg_replace().


www.php.net/str_replace

 

You could just use basename and add a slash.

echo '/'.basename($data);

http://us3.php.net/basename

 

Thanks to both of you, they both work,

I hoped this was going to be easy, my eyes are blood shot and there you have it,, I owe you both a beer.

Thanks

Rick