Hi,

the regexes need to start and end with a delimiter. It's fairly traditional in PHP to use a forward slash (/), but since that's often found in the string that you are searching, then I prefer to use a # instead. The search pattern than has to start and end with that character. It's actually completely optional as to what character you use as per the PHP spec, but it has to be the same on both ends.

The ^ and $ (if you want to use them) go inside the end characters.

e.g. #^http://www\.mysite\.com/mypage123$#

(remembering to escape the "." characters with a backslash)

Ok, for isolating numbers between 1 and 5000 with regex, that's quite tricky. I think I'd do it this way, with alternatives for the different number of digits (1-4). This will catch the numbers 0-9, 10-99, 100-999, 1000-4999, and 5000. I've use an example of a url that ends in mypage.html?id=digits

#mypage\.html\?id=(([0-9])|([1-9][0-9])|([1-9][0-9][0-9])|([1-4][0-9][0-9][0-9])|5000)$#

Hope that helps,
Stephen

Page1 or page2:

#^(page1|page2)\.html$#

I don't think you really want to detect page1 AND page2: the page can't be both things at once, so I think you're wanting the "OR" version above.

Cheers,
Stephen