Get a part of a string

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Extract part from URL for a query string
how do i parse url php

I have a string like this one:

http://twitter.com/what/

How can I get the what part ?

Basically I want to get the last part of a URL

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:11

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http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

$url = "http://twitter.com/what/";

$parts = parse_url($url);

$what = substr($parts['path'], 1, strlen($parts['path']) - 2);

answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:11

Dan Grossman

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thanks, I thought I needed regex or something like that :) – Jane Jul 29 '11 at 10:14
It would've been an easy regex to write... or to search for and copy. – Dan Grossman Jul 29 '11 at 10:16
@Dan: In a second thought, this won't get exactly the required string. :) – Shef Jul 29 '11 at 10:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:14

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$url = "http://twitter.com/what/";
echo basename($url);

answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:14

Shakti Singh

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:19

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Using preg_match

<?php

if (preg_match('/http:\/\/([^\/]*)\/(.*)/', "http://twitter.com/what/", $m)) {
    $domain = $m[1]; // will contain 'twitter.com'
    $path = $m[2]; // will contain 'what/'
}

answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:19

arunkumar

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 29 '11 at 10:20

$url = "http://twitter.com/what/";
$parts = parse_url($url);
$parts = explode('/', trim($parts['path'], '/'));

echo $parts[0]; // output: what

If the URL will contain other parts in the path. E.g. http://twitter.com/what/else/. Then the else part will be on the second index of the array, and you can access it like this $parts[1].

Get a part of a string

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