retrieving information from URL - php

Question

I'm creating an API with PHP and am having difficulty with the URL, it gets this URL to me http://localhost/api/index/Peoples/3
The idea is that I want to use the Peoples Class and I want to get the Person with code 3, is there any way I can get Peoples and number 3?
The idea I made was this, I retrieve the URL from the browser and I'm going to explode on it. While I do not need to pass parameters through the url this works perfectly
public function getClass(){
$params = explode("/api/index/", $this->currentUrl);
if(count($params) == 1)
return "no have class !";
else
{
$params = explode('/', $params[1]);
$this->callClass($params[0]);
return "Classe : ".$params[0];
}
}
with this code I can recover Peoples and then know which class I will use. now I want to pass the parameter of the code, as for example 3. I could pass as follows ../Peoples?id=3 but I would have to break even more my string, have a better way to do this?
What's the difference between passing ../Peoples?id=3 or ../Peoples/3 and how can I recover?

Answer 1

you can try something like this
public function getClass()
{
$path = explode('/', parse_url($this->currentUrl, PHP_URL_PATH));
if(count($path) !== 5){
return 'not valid url';
}
$id = array_pop($path);
$class = array_pop($path);
//$this->callClass($class);
$newPath = $class.'?id='.$id;
return $newPath;
}
and regarding your question about /Peoples?id=3 or ../Peoples/3
the second one is easier if you are working with a framework such as symfony or laravel where you can define controllers and the first one you can easily fetch you data from the URL with $_GET['id']
Hope that was what you are looking for.