How to Grab the Name of the 2nd Folder Without the Path

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The last question was marked as a duplicate so I'm reopening since $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']: isnt what I'm looking for because it displays the entire path.

I need to just display the name of the 2nd folder alone without the path, without forward slashes and without the pagename

Here is the structure of the URL: http://example.com/sub/THISFOLDER/page.php

the domain will change, so I'm looking for a solution that will work for any domain as long as it targets the 2nd folder.

What I want to do is something like this:

if THISFOLDER is named folder1 then { include("header2.php"); }

possible duplicate of [PHP Get name of current directory](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9997391/php-get-name-of-current-directory) — Roberto Anić Banić, Jul 24 '15 at 01:52
Is this code you're running on that domain, or you're providing a list of other urls? Really, it sounds like you need to be using url rewriting to send those values as parameters into your script. — Jessica, Jul 24 '15 at 01:53
@Jessica it will be running on the domain its on but the URL will change often — Joe Bobby, Jul 24 '15 at 01:57

Roberto Anić Banić · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-24T02:04:22.130

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To fetch the current folder name use this method:

$arr = explode('/', dirname(__FILE__));
$whatyouneed = $arr[count($arr)-1];

edited Jul 24 '15 at 02:04

answered Jul 24 '15 at 01:51

Roberto Anić Banić

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What is wrong with my answer? I flagged the post again too, but this guys still reposted it. – Roberto Anić Banić Jul 24 '15 at 01:52
it displays the path still, how do i get rid of everything but the folder at the end? – Joe Bobby Jul 24 '15 at 02:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 01:52

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<?php
$str = 'http://example.com/sub/THISFOLDER/page.php';
$parts = parse_url($str);
$folders = explode('/', $parts['path']);
var_dump($folders[2]);

Output:

string(10) "THISFOLDER"

I used parse_url so it will work easily regardless of the exact url structure.

answered Jul 24 '15 at 01:52

Jessica

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I think that the example url is the current page on the browser. – Roberto Anić Banić Jul 24 '15 at 01:54
Yeah, I realized that after - I posted a comment asking him to clarify. – Jessica Jul 24 '15 at 01:54
not sure if OP asked for this, read the last line of question he is asking something like if this=that do this – Shehary Jul 24 '15 at 01:54
Well only one way to find out! @JoeBobby whose answer is right? Jessicas or mine? – Roberto Anić Banić Jul 24 '15 at 01:56
@shehary that was added after I posted. However he could easily use the same logic with the `$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']` that he's already aware of. – Jessica Jul 24 '15 at 01:56
Plus one for that! Should I remove my answer? – Roberto Anić Banić Jul 24 '15 at 01:57
And actually he could use it with `dirname(__FILE__)` too. I think he just needed to be made aware of `explode` – Jessica Jul 24 '15 at 01:58
Well I'm not the one with the question here so lets see what OP really asked for. – Shehary Jul 24 '15 at 01:59
My answer is what he needs and still someone downvoted it XD. – Roberto Anić Banić Jul 24 '15 at 02:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 02:01

If you always want to get the last folder before the php page. (Even if it is not the second you can use this code).

<?php
$thisPath = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];;
$pattern = '/(\W+)\/(\w+)\/(\w+)/';
$replacement = '$2';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
?>

Sorry, I don't have a php instance spun up to actually test this, but the way it should work is this: Looking at it from back to front: It will find normal word characters and hit the slash, that is accounted for by "/". Then it will look for more normal characters. The '/' is covered, then it will look for any possible non-white space character to cover the rest. You want the middle portion.

How to Grab the Name of the 2nd Folder Without the Path

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