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1321941
1321941

Reputation: 2170

request uri php: get first level

If I had a url such as www.example.com/test/example/product.html

How would I be able to get just the test part(so the top level)

I understand you would use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and maybe substr or trim

But I am unsure of how to do this, thank you!

Upvotes: 11

Views: 22350

Answers (3)

You Old Fool
You Old Fool

Reputation: 22941

Simplest way to get the first part of any path is to use strtok():

echo strtok($path, '/');

This will work regardless of whether or not it has a leading /. To do this with a url you can extract the path part with parse_url() and use the same strtok() method mentioned above like this:

echo strtok(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH), '/')

Upvotes: 0

Samy Dindane
Samy Dindane

Reputation: 18706

Split the string into an array with explode, and then take the part you need.

$whatINeed = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$whatINeed = $whatINeed[1];

If you use PHP 5.4, you can do $whatINeed = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])[1];

Upvotes: 31

Incognito
Incognito

Reputation: 20765

<?php
$url = 'http://username:[email protected]/test/example/product.html?arg=value#anchor';

print_r(parse_url($url));

$urlArray = parse_url($url);

/* Output:

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => hostname
    [user] => username
    [pass] => password
    [path] => /test/example/product.html
    [query] => arg=value
    [fragment] => anchor
)


*/

echo dirname($urlArray[path]);

/* Output:

/test    

*/

Upvotes: 5

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