Remove all characters before last / in URL

Question

I need to remove every characters before the last "/"

This my url :

http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/

And I want to have only :

all-about-clothing

Thanks

You can catch this using regex: `http:\/\/www\.example\.com\/highlights\/cat\/(.*) ` https://regex101.com/r/tG5pA6/1 — bodruk, Nov 03 '15 at 12:56

Pupil · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-03T12:57:04.643

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Use basename()

$str = 'http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/';
echo basename($str);
// Outputs: all-about-clothing

EDIT:

Another Solution:

$str = 'http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/';
$path = pathinfo($str, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
echo "<br/>" . $path;

edited Nov 03 '15 at 12:57

answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:42

Pupil

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Also check [pathinfo()](http://php.net/manual/de/function.pathinfo.php) with PATHINFO_BASENAME as `basename()` was meant for directory paths. – pmayer Nov 03 '15 at 12:49
Ok, forget about that. Esentially `pathinfo()` and `basename()` do the same. – pmayer Nov 03 '15 at 12:52
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@PatrikMayer, you are right. I have updated my answer and added your suggestions. – Pupil Nov 03 '15 at 12:53
Thank you. Maybe keep the second parameter of `pathinfo()` in mind. Set to `PATHINFO_BASENAME` it returns the basename directly. – pmayer Nov 03 '15 at 12:55

pmayer · Answer 2 · 2015-11-03T12:50:05.943

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Use PHP's parse_url() function.

edit: basename() or pathinfo() is the easier way.

edited Nov 03 '15 at 12:50

answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:43

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:53

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$str = 'http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/';
$str = trim($str,'/');
$str = explode('/',$str);
echo $str = end($str);

// get result

all-about-clothing

answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:53

ImBhavin95

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:45

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<?php
$url = "http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/";
$url_path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$basename = pathinfo($url_path, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
echo $basename;
?>

answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:45

Siddhartha esunuri

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That's not right. [pathinfo()](http://php.net/manual/de/function.pathinfo.php) wants the URL as first parameter, not the array given by parse_url. – pmayer Nov 03 '15 at 12:48

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:58

You can use regex too:

$match = [];
$subject = 'http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/';
$pattern = '/http:\/\/www\.example\.com\/highlights\/cat\/(.*)/';
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $match);
print_r($match);

You can see the result here.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:59

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<?php
$url = 'http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/';
$basename =  split('/',$url);    
echo $basename[5];
?>

answered Nov 03 '15 at 12:59

Nitin Shukla

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This code works with a specific url and fails if url has a different number of segments. – Naktibalda Nov 04 '15 at 16:37

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 03 '15 at 13:15

Most of the above solution focus on the exact example URL, Please be careful as if extra params are added to the end of the string, you may get the wrong result:

http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/?page=1 http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/item/1

to cache the 3rd "directory" after the domain name, and ignore the rest of the URL, the following code can be used:

$url = "http://www.example.com/highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/item/1";

$url_path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); #  /highlights/cat/all-about-clothing/item/1

$dirs = explode('/', $url_path); # Array([0] =>"", [1]=>"highlights", [2]=>"cat", [3]=>"all-about-clothing", [4]=>"item", [5]=>"1") 

echo $dirs[3]; # all-about-clothing

Remove all characters before last / in URL

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