Will, that's right. The \w switch is roughly equivalent to [A-Za-z0-9_], aka, letters, numbers and underscores. I put \w/ in there to capture the \w words and / forward slashes. This regex just captures any words & slashes after /parts/, which is pretty good because it makes the ending slash optional. If you have other characters in your subcategories (like dashes), you can just add those to the [\w/] char group. You could get fancier, and capture the subcategories individually, but it gets trickier, and making that replacement in CF is so much easier.
nathan strutz [http://www.dopefly.com/] [http://hi.im/nathanstrutz] On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Wil Genovese <jugg...@trunkful.com> wrote: > > The \w typically means match any word. I think it's allowed in mod_rewrite > rules. > > So this rule says look for /part/ and any word ending in / and find 1 or > more of those words ending in / > > Nate, is that right? > > > > > Wil Genovese > Sr. Web Application Developer/ > Systems Administrator > > 651-894-4238 > wilg...@trunkful.com > www.trunkful.com > > On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Mark A. Kruger wrote: > > > > > Nate.... ok... what's the \w/ for? I'm not seeing that in my list of > stuff > > I can use in the docs. > > > > Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG > > (402) 408-3733 ext 105 > > Skype: markakruger > > www.cfwebtools.com > > www.coldfusionmuse.com > > www.necfug.com > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nathan Strutz [mailto:str...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 8:53 AM > > To: cf-talk > > Subject: Re: More rewrite rule fun > > > > > > Mark, > > > > If your regex ^([^/]*)/parts(/)?$ captures anything after the parts/, you > > have a bad regex engine. > > > > You probably want something like this: ^.*/parts/([\w/]+)$ > > > > Using the same replace pattern, you will end up > > with > > > /controllerScript.cfm?prodtype=product&displayaction=displayProductCategorie > > s&model=subcategory1/subcategory2/subcat3 > > > > Not sure if that's what you're going for, but a bad response is better > than > > no response from the list ;) > > > > nathan strutz > > [http://www.dopefly.com/] [http://hi.im/nathanstrutz] > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Mark A. Kruger > > <mkru...@cfwebtools.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> Ok regex gurus. here's what I have. I'm using IsapiRewrite (Helicon) on > an > >> IIS server. > >> > >> > >> > >> I have links like the following: > >> > >> > >> > >> http://domain/model/parts/subcat1/subcat2/subcat3/subcat4/subcat5 > >> > >> > >> > >> From 1 to 6 levels of sub categories. > >> > >> > >> > >> My rule finds "parts" and the "model" .. So I need a rule that gives me > > the > >> rest of the url (everything after /parts/) and directs it to my > controller > >> - > >> which figures out what to display. Here's what I have that works for > the > >> first level.. > >> > >> > >> > >> RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/parts(/)?$ > >> > >> > > > /controllerScript.cfm?prodtype=product&displayaction=displayProductCategorie > >> s&model=$1 [L,QSA] > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> So what do I need to work with subsequent levels. I'm trying to add > >> something to the end of /parts(/)?$ . like (/*) or (/)*? . something > that > >> variablizes the rest of the URL .but I'm falling flat. > >> > >> > >> > >> Any rewrite gurus out there know what I'm doing wrong? Will I need a > rule > >> for each possible level maybe? > >> > >> > >> > >> -mark > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG > >> > >> (402) 408-3733 ext 105 > >> > >> Skype: markakruger > >> > >> <http://www.cfwebtools.com> www.cfwebtools.com > >> > >> <http://www.coldfusionmuse.com> www.coldfusionmuse.com > >> > >> <http://www.necfug.com/> www.necfug.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340208 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
