How to parse Apache logs using a regex in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to split this string in PHP:

11.11.11.11 - - [25/Jan/2000:14:00:01 +0100] \"GET /1986.js HTTP/1.1\" 200 932 \"http://domain.com/index.html\" \"Mozill         


        

Answer 1

You should check out a regular expression tutorial. But here is the answer:

if (preg_match('/^(\S+) \S+ \S+ \[(.*?)\] "(\S+).*?" \d+ \d+ "(.*?)" "(.*?)"/', $line, $m)) {
  $ip = $m[1];
  $date = $m[2];
  $method = $m[3];
  $referer = $m[4];
  $browser = $m[5];
}

Take care, it's not the domain name in the log but the HTTP referer.