Get the value of a URL after the last slash

Question

Say I have the following URL values:

http://website.com/tagged/news/
http://website.com/tagged/news
http://www.website.com/tagged/news/
http://www.website.com/tagged/news

I'd like to have a PHP function to get news in this example. So I want the value after the last slash if it isn't blank and if that value is blank, then I'd like to get the value before that slash.

I found this post: Get last word from URL after a slash in PHP

But I'd like to be really sure just in case someone types a slash at the end of the URL.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '13 at 20:54

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As easy as:

substr(strrchr(rtrim($url, '/'), '/'), 1)

answered Feb 25 '13 at 20:54

zerkms

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or the slower end(explode("/",$url)) but +1 cause yours is faster – nathan hayfield Feb 25 '13 at 20:55
@nathan hayfield: `end(explode("/",$url))` shouldn't be used, it accepts a reference, not an expression – zerkms Feb 25 '13 at 20:56
@nathan hayfield: it generates warning – zerkms Feb 25 '13 at 20:57
@nathan hayfield: it has nothing to do with php as a language :-) – zerkms Feb 25 '13 at 20:58
@zerkms Oh no it doesn't. My bad. Tested and validated. +1 – Jules Feb 25 '13 at 21:01

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '13 at 20:56

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You can also use basename($url)

answered Feb 25 '13 at 20:56

Rob

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '13 at 21:06

A little more verbose, but something like this should work:

$url = ... //your url
//trim slashes off the end to make sure url doesn't end with slash
$results = explode('/', trim($url,'/'));
if(count($results) > 0){
    //get the last record
    $last = $results[count($results) - 1];
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 25 '13 at 20:55

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You can try preg_match()

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php and http://www.regular-expressions.info/

answered Feb 25 '13 at 20:55

Oussama Jilal

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Get the value of a URL after the last slash

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