Regular expression help

Match example.php?[anything except cat=]

[CernyM]

I need to create a regular expression that will match:

example.php?anyparameter=whatever

except when

example.php?cat=whatever

is the parameter.

[g1smd]

You'll be testing the {QUERY_STRING} and looking for anything that is NOT "cat=whatever".

Also, test only for "example.php" so the rule only runs when that is the requested page.

[eelixduppy]

It would probably look something like this:

if(isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) && !preg_match("/^cat=.+$/",$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']))
#do something

[CernyM]

It's not a web/PHP question per se. I don't have access to the query string information as a variable in this case.

[eelixduppy]

What are you using this for? If not php is it apache's mod_rewrite? Something else? regex patterns match strings so you must have the query or uri string somewhere.

[chorny]

Something like /example\.php\?(?!cat)[\w_-]+=.*/

[CernyM]

What are you using this for? If not php is it apache's mod_rewrite? Something else? regex patterns match strings so you must have the query or uri string somewhere.

It's for Google Analytics goal tracking.