Extracting text from URL using PHP

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I'm curious as to how I would get a certain value after a delimiter in a URL?

If I have a URL of http://www.testing.site.com/site/biz/i-want-this, how would I extract only the part that says "i-want-this", or initially after the last /?

Thank you!

Sylver · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-03 06:19:46Z

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You want basename($path); It should give you what you need:

http://www.ideone.com/8hFSN

answered Dec 3, 2011 at 6:19

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Sylver Over a year ago

Cool, you can approve the answer then.

Trott · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-03 06:32:53Z

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$url = "http://www.testing.site.com/site/biz/i-want-this";
preg_match( "/[^\/]*$/", $url, $match);
echo $match[0];  // i-want-this

You can use basename() but if you are on Windows, it will break on not just slashes but also backslashes. This is unlikely to come up as backslashes are unusual in a URL. But I suspect you could find them in a query string in a valid URL.

edited Dec 3, 2011 at 6:32

answered Dec 3, 2011 at 6:18

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