PHP get whole string not individual params in URL

Question

If I have a domain e.g. www.example.com/w/

I want to be able to get the whole string of text appended after the URL, I know how to get parameters in format ?key=value, that's not what I'm looking for.

but I would like to get everything after the /w/ prefix, the whole string altogether so if someone appended after the above

www.example.com/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

I would be able to get https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

I was thinking of installing codeigniter on my server if that helps, but at the moment I'm just using core php

str_replace('www.example.com/w/', '', $url);

Nick
– Nick

2019-04-18 03:59:42 +00:00
Commented Apr 18, 2019 at 3:59 — Nick
– Nick, Commented Apr 18, 2019 at 3:59

Danish Ali · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-18 04:45:36Z

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You just need to use str_replace()

$str = "www.example.com/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html";
$str2 =  str_replace('www.example.com/w/', '', $str);
echo $str2;

Output

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

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M.Hemant · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-18 04:40:46Z

Try this, with strpos and substr

$str = "www.example.com/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html";
echo $str.'<pre>';
$start =  strpos($str, '/w/');
echo substr($str, $start + 3);die;

Output:

www.example.com/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

strpos() will give you first occurrence of /w/ and from there you can do substr with +3 to remove /w/

OR Try this, with strstr and str_replace

$str = "www.example.com/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html";
echo $str.'<pre>';
$str1 =  strstr($str, '/w/');
echo $str1.'<pre>';
$str2 = str_replace('/w/', '', $str1);
echo $str2.'<pre>';die;

Output:

www.example.com/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

/w/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.html

strstr() will give you substring with given /w/ and use str_replace() to remove /w/from new string

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