get last word from url after a slash in php

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get last word from url after a slash in php

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

OR
Use basename with parse_url:

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

OR



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'], '/'));


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To do that you will need to 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();



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