Get Last Part of URL PHP

Question

I'm just wondering how I can extract the last part of a URL using PHP.

The example URL is:

http://domain.example/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903

Now how can I extract the final part using PHP?

There is always the same number of variables in the URL, and the id is always at the end.

nikc.org · Answer 1 · 2022-11-03T14:24:28.993

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The absolute simplest way to accomplish this, is with basename()

echo basename('http://example.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903');

Which will print

9393903

Of course, if there is a query string at the end it will be included in the returned value, in which case the accepted answer is a better solution.

edited Nov 03 '22 at 14:24

answered Jan 04 '12 at 08:47

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seriously. After many regular expressions I came around this answer. Why didn't I find this earlier. Plain and simple. – NME New Media Entertainment Oct 08 '20 at 18:42

hakre · Answer 2 · 2018-12-05T21:23:59.807

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Split it apart and get the last element:

$end = end(explode('/', $url));
# or:
$end = array_slice(explode('/', $url), -1)[0];

Edit: To support apache-style-canonical URLs, rtrim is handy:

$end = end(explode('/', rtrim($url, '/')));
# or:
$end = array_slice(explode('/', rtrim($url, '/')), -1)[0];

A different example which might me considered more readable is (Demo):

$path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$pathFragments = explode('/', $path);
$end = end($pathFragments);

This example also takes into account to only work on the path of the URL.

Yet another edit (years after), canonicalization and easy UTF-8 alternative use included (via PCRE regular expression in PHP):

<?php

use function call_user_func as f;
use UnexpectedValueException as e;

$url = 'http://example.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903';

$result = preg_match('(([^/]*)/*$)', $url, $m)

    ? $m[1]
    : f(function() use ($url) {throw new e("pattern on '$url'");})
    ;

var_dump($result); # string(7) "9393903"

Which is pretty rough but shows how to wrap this this within a preg_match call for finer-grained control via PCRE regular expression pattern. To add some sense to this bare-metal example, it should be wrapped inside a function of its' own (which would also make the aliasing superfluous). Just presented this way for brevity.

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answered Sep 12 '11 at 23:48

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Mind the gap: This code exploits something that could be considered a bug in PHP. I'll update the answer. – hakre Sep 13 '11 at 00:05
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@hakre +1, but you'll get nothing if there's trailing slash in the `$url`. Better use [array_filter](http://php.net/array_filter) to remove empty elements first — `$pathFragments = array_filter(explode('/', $path));` – jibiel Mar 15 '13 at 15:47
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@jibiel: Or do the `rtrim`-boogie, I edited the answer, see the now third code-example. – hakre Mar 15 '13 at 16:35
This solution probably performs somewhere in between the `basename`/`str*` solutions and the `preg` solutions if I had to guess. While it's an intuitively simple approach, it comes with some runtime overhead. – quickshiftin Nov 15 '14 at 20:48
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@hakre Demo link is broken. Please kindly fix it – Michael Okoli Jun 21 '17 at 11:37
@MichaelPeter: re-created the demo, the other one I removed as the code is practically there and also the examples changed as PHP has changed. The last example can stay. – hakre Jun 21 '17 at 12:21

score 29 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 21 '22 at 19:05

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If you are looking for a robust version that can deal with any form of URLs, this should do nicely:

<?php

$url = "http://foobar.example/foo/bar/1?baz=qux#fragment/foo";
$lastSegment = basename(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH));

edited Jun 21 '22 at 19:05

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answered May 14 '13 at 15:39

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This is my favorite of the bunch. Robust, performant and concise. – quickshiftin Nov 15 '14 at 20:44
Much easier than the other ones – balping Sep 13 '15 at 15:07

score 28 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 21 '22 at 19:05

You can use preg_match to match the part of the URL that you want.

In this case, since the pattern is easy, we're looking for a forward slash (\/ and we have to escape it since the forward slash denotes the beginning and end of the regular expression pattern), along with one or more digits (\d+) at the very end of the string ($). The parentheses around the \d+ are used for capturing the piece that we want: namely the end. We then assign the ending that we want ($end) to $matches[1] (not $matches[0], since that is the same as $url (ie the entire string)).

$url='http://domain.example/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903';

if(preg_match("/\/(\d+)$/",$url,$matches))
{
  $end=$matches[1];
}
else
{
  //Your URL didn't match.  This may or may not be a bad thing.
}

Note: You may or may not want to add some more sophistication to this regular expression. For example, if you know that your URL strings will always start with http:// then the regex can become /^http:\/\/.*\/(\d+)$/ (where .* means zero or more characters (that aren't the newline character)).

Nice. Could also be done with preg_replace in 1 line. I'll add an answer. — Jorge Orpinel Pérez, Oct 24 '14 at 17:50
This solution is probably the slowest of the bunch; not hating, just saying. — quickshiftin, Nov 15 '14 at 20:45
What about example.com/123/my-slug/1235 and you needed 1235? — zanderwar, Jan 22 '17 at 07:40
It works on strings. But how do you get that last part from URL? — Cornelius, Feb 11 '20 at 21:18

score 15 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 21 '22 at 19:06

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$id = strrchr($url,"/");
$id = substr($id,1,strlen($id));

Here is the description of the strrchr function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strrchr.php

edited Jun 21 '22 at 19:06

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answered Sep 12 '11 at 23:21

Tamer Shlash

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This solution is likely the fastest of the bunch, save perhaps the `basename()` solution when applicable. – quickshiftin Nov 15 '14 at 20:37
this solution is very helpful and very simple – Malki Mohamed Oct 28 '16 at 18:58
The solution is very helpful for me too – STA Jun 06 '21 at 15:55

score 7 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 12 '11 at 23:21

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Another option:

$urlarray=explode("/",$url);
$end=$urlarray[count($urlarray)-1];

answered Sep 12 '11 at 23:21

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score 5 · Answer 7 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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One of the most elegant solutions was here Get characters after last / in url

by DisgruntledGoat

$id = substr($url, strrpos($url, '/') + 1);

strrpos gets the position of the last occurrence of the slash; substr returns everything after that position.

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answered May 21 '16 at 05:50

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score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 10 '15 at 17:25

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One liner: $page_path = end(explode('/', trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/')));

Get URI, trim slashes, convert to array, grab last part

answered Aug 10 '15 at 17:25

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causes error with current PHP(Jan 2020): https://stackoverflow.com/a/4636183/571723 – dmikester1 Jan 18 '20 at 05:00

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 19 '20 at 06:02

A fail safe solution would be:

Referenced from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2273328/2062851

function getLastPathSegment($url) {
    $path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); // to get the path from a whole URL
    $pathTrimmed = trim($path, '/'); // normalise with no leading or trailing slash
    $pathTokens = explode('/', $pathTrimmed); // get segments delimited by a slash

    if (substr($path, -1) !== '/') {
        array_pop($pathTokens);
    }
    return end($pathTokens); // get the last segment
}

echo getLastPathSegment($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); //9393903

score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Jun 21 '22 at 19:07

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this will do the job easily to get the last part of the required URL

$url="http://domain.example/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903";
$requred_string= substr(strrchr($url, "/"), 1);

this will get you the string after first "/" from the right.

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answered Apr 25 '14 at 05:01

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Do mind: if there's a trailing slash at the end this will fail. See the comments at the solution of hakre and his edit. Check out Peter's solution: the basename() function is made for this. – metatron Feb 09 '16 at 11:03

score 1 · Answer 11 · edited Jul 15 '15 at 16:23

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$mylink = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$link_array = explode('/',$mylink);
echo $lastpart = end($link_array);

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answered Jul 15 '15 at 07:21

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score 1 · Answer 12 · edited Jul 11 '21 at 07:08

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function getLastPathSegment($url) {
    $arr = explode('/', $url);
    return $arr[count($arr) - 1];
}

edited Jul 11 '21 at 07:08

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answered Jul 10 '21 at 07:57

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While this code may answer the question, providing additional context regarding *how* and/or *why* it solves the problem would improve the answer's long-term value. – Sven Eberth Jul 10 '21 at 22:23

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 24 '14 at 17:52

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1-liner

$end = preg_replace( '%^(.+)/%', '', $url );

// if( ! $end ) no match.

This simply removes everything before the last slash, including it.

answered Oct 24 '14 at 17:52

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Nov 25 '14 at 13:10

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One line working answer:

$url = "http://www.yoursite/one/two/three/drink";
echo $end = end((explode('/', $url)));

Output: drink

answered Nov 25 '14 at 13:10

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Ho do i get only two/three/drink from the url ? – Sri Sep 18 '18 at 05:38

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