Function for each subfolder in PHP - php

Question

I am new in PHP and can't figure out how to do this:
$link = 'http://www.domainname.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4';
$domain_and_slash = http://www.domainname.com . '/';
$address_without_site_url = str_replace($domain_and_slash, '', $link);
foreach ($folder_adress) {
// function here for example
echo $folder_adress;
}
I can't figure out how to get the $folder_adress.
In the case above I want the function to echo these four:
folder1
folder1/folder2
folder1/folder2/folder3
folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4
The $link will have different amount of subfolders...

Answer 1

This gets you there. Some things you might explore more: explode, parse_url, trim. Taking a look at the docs of there functions gets you a better understanding how to handle url's and how the code below works.
$link = 'http://www.domainname.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4';
$parts = parse_url($link);
$pathParts = explode('/', trim($parts['path'], '/'));
$buffer = "";
foreach ($pathParts as $part) {
$buffer .= $part.'/';
echo $buffer . PHP_EOL;
}
/*
Output:
folder1/
folder1/folder2/
folder1/folder2/folder3/
folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/
*/

Answer 2

You should have a look on explode() function
array explode ( string $delimiter , string $string [, int $limit ] )
Returns an array of strings, each of
which is a substring of string formed
by splitting it on boundaries formed
by the string delimiter.
Use / as the delimiter.

Answer 3

This is what you are looking for:
$link = 'http://www.domainname.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4';
$domain_and_slash = 'http://www.domainname.com' . '/';
$address_without_site_url = str_replace($domain_and_slash, '', $link);
// this splits the string into an array
$address_without_site_url_array = explode('/', $address_without_site_url);
$folder_adress = '';
// now we loop through the array we have and append each item to the string $folder_adress
foreach ($address_without_site_url_array as $item) {
// function here for example
$folder_adress .= $item.'/';
echo $folder_adress;
}
Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Try this:
$parts = explode("/", "folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4");
$base = "";
for($i=0;$i<count($parts);$i++){
$base .= ($base ? "/" : "") . $parts[$i];
echo $base . "<br/>";
}

Answer 5

I would use preg_match() for regular expression method:
$m = preg_match('%http://([.+?])/([.+?])/([.+?])/([.+?])/([.+?])/?%',$link)
// $m[1]: domain.ext
// $m[2]: folder1
// $m[3]: folder2
// $m[4]: folder3
// $m[5]: folder4

Answer 6

1) List approach: use split to get an array of folders, then concatenate them in a loop.
2) String approach: use strpos with an offset parameter which changes from 0 to 1 + last position where a slash was found, then use substr to extract the part of the folder string.
EDIT:
<?php
$folders = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4';
function fn($folder) {
echo $folder, "\n";
}
echo "\narray approach\n";
$folder_array = split('/', $folders);
foreach ($folder_array as $folder) {
if ($result != '')
$result .= '/';
$result .= $folder;
fn($result);
}
echo "\nstring approach\n";
$pos = 0;
while ($pos = strpos($folders, '/', $pos)) {
fn(substr($folders, 0, $pos++));
}
fn($folders);
?>

Answer 7

If I had time, I could do a cleaner job. But this works and gets across come ideas: http://codepad.org/ITJVCccT
Use parse_url, trim, explode, array_pop, and implode