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I need to get second last word of a url which is split by "/".I have tried 

$refer_split = explode("/", $refer);
    echo $refer_split[6];

but it is not working in case of small urls. please suggest a good way to find the secondlast word in php

daan.desmedt
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Nighina t t
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  • Count the number of array entries, and do some most basic math? – CBroe Jun 20 '17 at 08:11
  • `echo $refer_split[count($refer_split)-2];` – apokryfos Jun 20 '17 at 08:12
  • Possible duplicate of [How to get string before last slash and after second last slash in URL](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20823748/how-to-get-string-before-last-slash-and-after-second-last-slash-in-url) – Yadhu Babu Jun 20 '17 at 08:16
  • In codeigniter you can use the uri segments() https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/uri.html –  Jun 20 '17 at 09:38

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use CI Built in Functions

$url_count=$this->uri->total_segments();
echo  $this->uri->segment($url_count-1);

-1 is used because $this->uri->total_segments() this give you the last word and -1 will give second last

Reuben Gomes
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Try following :

$refer = "https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190344/replacing-urls-with-dummy-urls";
$refer_split = explode("/", $refer);
echo (count($refer_split) > 1) ? $refer_split[ count($refer_split) - 2] : 'no parts available'; 
// echo's '190344'

DEMO

daan.desmedt
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You can do something like this:

$split = explode("/", $refer);
$count = count($split);
if($count > 1){
    echo $split[$count - 2];
}

This code won't work if your url count is 1, because you'd be trying to access element -1 which won't exist.

Florian Humblot
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