PHP - Get URL and send to array

Question

So lets say I have a link like this:

http://mywebsite.com/profile/alexkvazos/

I would like to explode the url and get this:

$uri = array('profile','alexkvazos');

What is the easiest approach to this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 01 '14 at 06:24

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try

// if the url is http://www.example.com/foo/bar/wow
 function getUriSegments() {
    return explode("/", parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));
 }

    print_r(getUriSegments()); //returns array(0=>'foo', 1=>'bar', 2=>'wow')

Source :- http://www.timwickstrom.com/server-side-code/php/php-get-uri-segments/

edited May 01 '14 at 06:24

Shankar Narayana Damodaran

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answered May 01 '14 at 06:01

Rakesh Sharma

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@ShankarDamodaran yes sure let me add – Rakesh Sharma May 01 '14 at 06:19
Thanks for adding the link. Deleted my comment. – Shankar Narayana Damodaran May 01 '14 at 06:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '14 at 06:01

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Use parse_url()

$path_parts = parse_url('http://mywebsite.com/profile/alexkvazos/');
$uri = explode('/',trim($path_parts['path'],'/'));
print_r($uri);

Working Demo

answered May 01 '14 at 06:01

Shankar Narayana Damodaran

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Here you are giving me the URL already on the parse_url function. How would I get it from the URL on the browser? – May 01 '14 at 06:05
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Read $_SERVER manual of PHP http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php – Rohit Choudhary May 01 '14 at 06:09
Check this [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6768831/1003917) on how to get your URL. Grab that and into a string and pass it into the `parse_url()` function as shown. @RohitKumarChoudhary, Thanks for the link. – Shankar Narayana Damodaran May 01 '14 at 06:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 01 '14 at 06:07

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You could use this piece of code:

<?php

$url = 'http://mywebsite.com/profile/alexkvazos/';

$url = rtrim($url,'/'); // lose the trailing slash
$urlArr = explode("/", $url );
$urlArr = array_reverse( $urlArr );

echo $urlArr[0];

?>

answered May 01 '14 at 06:07

GreyRoofPigeon

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered May 01 '14 at 06:12

I wouldn't use parse_url, I would just use preg_split like this:

$segments = preg_split('#/#', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

$final = array();

foreach($segments as $key => $value) {
    if($value != '') {
        $final[] = $value;
    }
}


var_dump($final);

PHP - Get URL and send to array

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