/* ----------------------------------------------------- | The function bbcLinkLocation takes one argument: | | a URL from the BBC News site. It then converts | | this to a location or category name, thus: | | .../go/rss/-/1/hi/business/12345.stm -> | | Business | | .../go/rss/-/1/hi/world/afica/12345.stm -> | | World | Africa | |___________________________________________________| | This function is (c) Dominic Smith, 2005 | | Enquiries to dom@domsmith.co.uk | | Released under the General Public Licence (GPL) | | See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt | ----------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ function bbcLinkLocation($newsLink) { // Determine location $match_this = "/\/hi\/.+\/\d+/"; preg_match($match_this,$newsLink,$locLink); $locLink[0] = str_replace("/hi/","",$locLink[0]); $match_this = "/\/\d+/"; $locLink[0] = preg_replace($match_this,"",$locLink[0]); $locLink[0] = str_replace("/"," | ",$locLink[0]); $locLink[0] = str_replace("_"," ",$locLink[0]); $locLink[0] = ucwords($locLink[0]); $locLink[0] = str_replace("Uk","UK",$locLink[0]); return $locLink; }