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Johan
Johan

Reputation: 19072

Get characters after last / in url

I want to get the characters after the last / in an url like http://www.vimeo.com/1234567

How do I do with php?

Upvotes: 156

Views: 186678

Answers (9)

Viacheslav Panev
Viacheslav Panev

Reputation: 119

My version is:

trim(strrchr($url, "/"), "/");

https://www.php.net/manual/function.strrchr

Upvotes: 2

GZipp
GZipp

Reputation: 5416

Check out basename(). It should work like this:

$string = basename($url);

Upvotes: 66

You Old Fool
You Old Fool

Reputation: 22941

Two one liners - I suspect the first one is faster but second one is prettier and unlike end() and array_pop(), you can pass the result of a function directly to current() without generating any notice or warning since it doesn't move the pointer or alter the array.

$var = 'http://www.vimeo.com/1234567';

// VERSION 1 - one liner simmilar to DisgruntledGoat's answer above
echo substr($a,(strrpos($var,'/') !== false ? strrpos($var,'/') + 1 : 0));

// VERSION 2 - explode, reverse the array, get the first index.
echo current(array_reverse(explode('/',$var)));

Upvotes: 0

DisgruntledGoat
DisgruntledGoat

Reputation: 72530

Very simply:

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

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

As mentioned by redanimalwar if there is no slash this doesn't work correctly since strrpos returns false. Here's a more robust version:

$pos = strrpos($url, '/');
$id = $pos === false ? $url : substr($url, $pos + 1);

Upvotes: 322

Mahmoud Zalt
Mahmoud Zalt

Reputation: 31130

Here's a beautiful dynamic function I wrote to remove last part of url or path.

/**
 * remove the last directories
 *
 * @param $path the path
 * @param $level number of directories to remove
 *
 * @return string
 */
private function removeLastDir($path, $level)
{
    if(is_int($level) && $level > 0){
        $path = preg_replace('#\/[^/]*$#', '', $path);
        return $this->removeLastDir($path, (int) $level - 1);
    }
    return $path;
}

Upvotes: -1

Sampson
Sampson

Reputation: 268344

You could explode based on "/", and return the last entry:

print end( explode( "/", "http://www.vimeo.com/1234567" ) );

That's based on blowing the string apart, something that isn't necessary if you know the pattern of the string itself will not soon be changing. You could, alternatively, use a regular expression to locate that value at the end of the string:

$url = "http://www.vimeo.com/1234567";

if ( preg_match( "/\d+$/", $url, $matches ) ) {
    print $matches[0];
}

Upvotes: 13

Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 725

You can use substr and strrchr:

$url = 'http://www.vimeo.com/1234567';
$str = substr(strrchr($url, '/'), 1);
echo $str;      // Output: 1234567

Upvotes: 12

ghostdog74
ghostdog74

Reputation: 342363

$str = "http://www.vimeo.com/1234567";
$s = explode("/",$str);
print end($s);

Upvotes: 10

nikc.org
nikc.org

Reputation: 16962

array_pop(explode("/", "http://vimeo.com/1234567")); will return the last element of the example url

Upvotes: 1

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