Thanks Nate - I have to add '-' and account for '&'.

 
Wil Genovese
Sr. Web Application Developer/
Systems Administrator

wilg...@trunkful.com
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On Dec 22, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Nathan Strutz wrote:

> 
> 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
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> <http://www.necfug.com/> www.necfug.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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