Regex for url containing parameter

Question

I have been trying to understand and use answers from several different question in here for what i think is the same question, but with no luck...

I need a regular expresion to match the a url that contains &orders-panel as part of the url, an example url would be

https://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=xxxx&action=edit&orders-panel

can anyone help me?

Im thinking about using the Redirection plugin, as i need it to be triggered when not logged in, so it redirects to a different page.

Thanks Kind regards

Could you provide what you've tried so far and what the expected outcome is? — Lucan, May 26 '20 at 13:02
Sure, I have tried many options (which unfortunetely i did not save them as they did not work, but the last one i tried is this which does not work either): /\b(?:https?:\/\/)?[^\/:]+\/.*?orders-panel The problem here is that because I do not EXACTLY know what am i doing, I dont know how to amend that to suit what i need. And basically i would need a regex that would get any url that contains &orders-page and redirect to example.com/login (idealy just when im not loged in already, if im logged in already, do not redirect anywhere, which i think can be achieved with redirection plugin) — Andres Molina Perez-Tome, May 26 '20 at 13:13
I tried with this other one too .*\?((.*=.*)(&?))orders-panel as it says it works in https://www.regexpal.com/ but it seems it is not working either. — Andres Molina Perez-Tome, May 26 '20 at 14:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '20 at 14:41

You could use the below, this will match any http/https prefixed URL with &orders-panel in it

https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&\/\/=]*)&orders-panel

The main URL pattern was taken from this answer. As you only want to redirect this should do the trick.

However, if you only want it to work with a particular domain, you could use something like below

https?:\/\/(www\.)?example.com\/.+?(&orders-panel)

It sounds like you're just dropping this into a redirect file but if not and you only want to redirect when the URL contains &orders-panel, you don't need regex to do this, a simple contains (in whatever language) would suffice.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '20 at 14:49

Thanks for the suggestion. While i was waiting for an answer i came up with a different solution, which is by using a function on my functions php file as:

add_action( 'init', 'orders-redirect');
   function orders-redirect() {
     if (!is_user_logged_in() && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "orders-panel")){
        wp_redirect( site_url('/login/') ); 
        exit; 
    }   
}

And seems to be working just fine, my question would be.. do you see any major reasons to do not use my solution and use the regex one?

Regex for url containing parameter

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