Get last word from URL after a slash in PHP - php

Question

I need to get the very last word from an URL. So for example I have the following URL:
http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test
I need to get with PHP only "test", nothing else. I tried to use something like this:
$words = explode(' ', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$showword = trim($words[count($words) - 1], '/');
echo $showword;
It does not work for me. Can you help me please?
Thank you so much!!

Answer 1

Use basename with parse_url:
echo basename(parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));

Answer 2

by using regex:
preg_match("/[^\/]+$/", "http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test", $matches);
$last_word = $matches[0]; // test

Answer 3

I used this:
$lastWord = substr($url, strrpos($url, '/') + 1);
Thnx to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1361752/4189000

Answer 4

You can use explode but you need to use / as delimiter:
$segments = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
Note that $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] can contain the query string if the current URI has one. In that case you should use parse_url before to only get the path:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'] = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
And to take trailing slashes into account, you can use rtrim to remove them before splitting it into its segments using explode. So:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'] = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
$segments = explode('/', rtrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'], '/'));

Answer 5

To do that you can use explode on your REQUEST_URI.I've made some simple function:
function getLast()
{
$requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
# Remove query string
$requestUri = trim(strstr($requestUri, '?', true), '/');
# Note that delimeter is '/'
$arr = explode('/', $requestUri);
$count = count($arr);
return $arr[$count - 1];
}
echo getLast();

Answer 6

If you don't mind a query string being included when present, then just use basename. You don't need to use parse_url as well.
$url = 'http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test';
$showword = basename($url);
echo htmlspecialchars($showword);
When the $url variable is generated from user input or from $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; before using echo use htmlspecialchars or htmlentities, otherwise users could add html tags or run JavaScript on the webpage.

Answer 7

use preg*
if ( preg_match( "~/(.*?)$~msi", $_SERVER[ "REQUEST_URI" ], $vv ))
echo $vv[1];
else
echo "Nothing here";
this was just idea of code. It can be rewriten in function.
PS. Generally i use mod_rewrite to handle this... ans process in php the $_GET variables.
And this is good practice, IMHO

Answer 8

ex: $url = 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/ADU0QnQ4eDs';
$url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
$url_path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$basename = pathinfo($url_path, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
// **output**: $basename is "ADU0QnQ4eDs"
complete solution you will get in the below link. i just found to Get last word from URL after a slash in PHP.
Get last parameter of url in php