PHP - Get URL and send to array

Question

So lets say I have a link like this:

http://mywebsite.com/profile/alexkvazos/

I would like to explode the url and get this:

$uri = array('profile','alexkvazos');

What is the easiest approach to this?

Answer 1

try

// if the url is http://www.example.com/foo/bar/wow
 function getUriSegments() {
    return explode("/", parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));
 }

    print_r(getUriSegments()); //returns array(0=>'foo', 1=>'bar', 2=>'wow')

Source :- http://www.timwickstrom.com/server-side-code/php/php-get-uri-segments/

Answer 2

Use parse_url()

$path_parts = parse_url('http://mywebsite.com/profile/alexkvazos/');
$uri = explode('/',trim($path_parts['path'],'/'));
print_r($uri);

Working Demo

Answer 3

You could use this piece of code:

<?php

$url = 'http://mywebsite.com/profile/alexkvazos/';

$url = rtrim($url,'/'); // lose the trailing slash
$urlArr = explode("/", $url );
$urlArr = array_reverse( $urlArr );

echo $urlArr[0];

?>

Answer 4

I wouldn't use parse_url, I would just use preg_split like this:

$segments = preg_split('#/#', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

$final = array();

foreach($segments as $key => $value) {
    if($value != '') {
        $final[] = $value;
    }
}


var_dump($final);