Dealing with online newspaper headline link in PHP

Question

I have seen on most online newspaper websites that when i click on a headline link, e.g. two thieves caught red handed, it normally opens a url like this: www.example.co.uk/news/two-thieves-caught-red-handed.

How do I deal with this url in php code, so that I can only pick the last part in the url. e.g. two-thieves-caught-red-handed. After that I want to work with this string.

I know how to deal with GET parameters like "www.example.co.uk/news/headline=two thieves caught red handed". But I do not want to do it that way. Could you show me another way.

You could use `explode('/',$url);` and then it's just the last part of that new array that contains your "two-thieves ... " — Epodax, Apr 22 '16 at 11:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '16 at 11:33

You can use the combination of explode and end functions for that

for example:

<?php
$url = "www.example.co.uk/news/two-thieves-caught-red-handed";
$url = explode('/', $url);

$end = end($url);
echo "$end";
?>

The code will result

two-thieves-caught-red-handed

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '16 at 11:36

You have several options in php to get the current url. For a detailed overview look here.

One would be to use $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI] and the use a string manipulation function for extraction of the parts you need. Maybe this thread will help you too.

Dealing with online newspaper headline link in PHP

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