I have this dummy URL : http://blahblah.co.uk/node/57?url=/Installer/Manufacturer/17/Schuco
I need the number "17" from this URL in order to query the database.
I have looked into using "isset()" but am not sure it is the right approach.
Can someone show me how to strip this URL down?
Thanks
This is what I have so far:
$url = $_GET['url'];
echo $url;
You could use explode() to strip the $url and get the 17
$url = $_GET['url'];
$parts = Explode('/', $url);
$part = $parts[7]; //17
You can change the 7 to get the right part of the url.
edit (after comment):
print_r($parts);
will give you
Array ( [0] => http:
[1] =>
[2] => blahblah.co.uk
[3] => node
[4] => 57?url=
[5] => Installer
[6] => Manufacturer
[7] => 17
[8] => Schuco
)
So you can see that number 7 gives you 17
echo $parts[7]; // 17
print_r($parts);Better if you will use PHP function parse_url to parse the URL.
Check below code :
$url = 'http://blahblah.co.uk/node/57?url=/Installer/Manufacturer/17/Schuco';
$parsedUrl = parse_url($url);
$explodeUrl = explode('/', $parsedUrl['query']);
echo $explodeUrl[3]; // 17
Now, you will get all the details of the URL you passed.
Try with preg_match()
$str = 'http://blahblah.co.uk/node/57?url=/Installer/Manufacturer/17/Schuco';
preg_match_all('/[0-9]+/', $str, $matches);
print($matches[0][1]); // 17
