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  • All Tokens
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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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$re = '/(?:(?:drill|suc+k|lic+k|bang+|stuf+|(?:mother)?fuc*k|fis+t)(?:(?:ing|e[dr])?(?:e?[sz])?)?(?:|\b.{0,80}?\b)(?:pis+|pus+(?:y|ies)|boo+b+|tit+(?:ies)?|coc?k|dick|ass(?:hole)?|penis|phallus|cunt|vag(?:ina)?|genital|ball|rectum|dog+ystyle|blowjob|bitch|bastard|slut+(?:ish)?|harlot|whore|lesbian|queer|homo(?:sexual)?|retard|jew(?:ish)?|nig+(?:er|a)|nic+a|fag(?:g?[eio]t)?|her[ei]tic|idiot|sin+ers|raghead|muslim|hindu|(?:your|him|her|them)\W*sel(?:f|ves))(?:(?:ing|e[dr]|e?)[sz]?)?|(?:pis+|pus+(?:y|ies)|boo+b+|tit+(?:ies)?|coc?k|dick|ass(?:hole)?|penis|phallus|cunt|vag(?:ina)?|genital|ball|rectum|dog+ystyle|blowjob|bitch|bastard|slut+(?:ish)?|harlot|whore|lesbian|queer|homo(?:sexual)?|retard|jew(?:ish)?|nig+(?:er|a)|nic+a|fag(?:g?[eio]t)?|her[ei]tic|idiot|sin+ers|raghead|muslim|hindu|(?:your|him|her|them)\W*sel(?:f|ves))(?:(?:ing|e[dr]|e?)[sz]?)?(?:|\b.{0,80}?\b)(?:drill|suc+k|lic+k|bang+|stuf+(?:ing|ed)|(?:mother)?fuc*k|fis+t)(?:(?:ing|e[dr])?(?:e?[sz])?)?)/m'; $str = '<p>I am afraid this is not easily doable, as modern browsers will block non-HTTPS requests if you are on https website.</p> <p>I think your best option would be to create your own form, with <code>fromStation</code> and <code>toStation</code> fields, collect this information from user yourself on your website, and then hit the railways website similar way you are doing, but instead of hardcoded URLs, there would be variables provided by the user</p> <pre><code>$fromStation = $_GET[\'fromStation\']; // this should be sanitized and validated first $toStation = $_GET[\'toStation\']; $content = file_get_contents("http://razpisanie.bdz.bg/mobile/search.jsp?fromstation={$fromStation}&tostation={$toStation}"); echo $content; </code></pre> <p>This is just a very simple prototype, and you will lose stuff like autocomplete (unless you write it yourself). But unless the Bulgarian railways move their website on https, I am afraid you don\'t have too many options.</p>'; preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0); // Print the entire match result var_dump($matches);

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for PHP, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php