regexp get filename from url

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url: http://blabla.bl/blabla/ss/sd/filename How to get a filename?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 20:38:18Z

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https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php

It works even on urls.

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answered Sep 12, 2009 at 8:19

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 20:38:18Z

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Use earcar's suggestion (basename) to get the filename.

BUT, if we're starting with a URL and the filename includes a query string, use Mauris's suggestion as well.

The query string will start with ? (that's how we know it's not part of the filename) and we can use

explode('?', basename($url));

This is summed up by the online PHP manual for basename

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Denilson Sá Maia · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-12 20:02:25Z

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Given an arbitrary URL, I think you should use basename() together with parse_url(). Something like this:

$parsed_url = parse_url($url);
$path = $parsed_url['path'];
$filename = basename($path);

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matiit · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-12 08:37:55Z

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Yes it works, but last thing, sometimes basename is aaaa_somewhat. How to delete _somewhat?

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mauris Over a year ago

$behind_underscore = array_pop(explode('_',basename($url))); unlink($behind_underscore);

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