match part of a string using an array of needles

[stubarny]

Hello,

 

I have several job categories on a recruitment website:

 

$job_category[0]="accountant";

$job_category[1]="php programming";

$job_category[2]="baseball";

 

these job categories are contained within the urls imediately after the recruiting company's name and before the word "jobs", so we could have the following urls:

 

www.url.com/company_name_accountant_jobs

www.url.com/another_company_name_baseball_jobs

www.url.com/yet_another_company_name_php programming_jobs

 

Using the array $job_categories and the page path after the foward slash (e.g. yet_another_company_name_php programming_jobs) please could you tell me how to strip out the job category and the company name? (I'll extract the page path using a mod_rewrite)

 

Thanks

 

Stu

[xyph]

I'd use some sort of standard for this.

 

url.com/jobs/company_name/baseball

 

You can then simply split by the delimiter... no need for a slow search