breaking up the uri

[nelsok1]

I want to be able to break a part the output from $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] so that

 

http://domain.tld/database/category/food/index.php

 

will return

 

$top_level = database

$second_level = category

$third_level = food

 

any ideas?

 

Thanks.

[Jabop]

<?php

$url_array=explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

// do your stuff

?>

[Wolphie]

If you want to assign variables to each segment of the URI use:

 

$segments = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
list($top_level, $second_level, $third_level) = $segments;

[nelsok1]

<?php
			$segments = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
list($top_level, $second_level, $third_level) = $segments;
echo $top_level;
?>

 

results in

 

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in index.php on line 16

 

 

I am pretty sure it is because this is being at the document root level.

 

Would you suggest counting the number of expoded items? because the directory depth can vary.

[Wolphie]

If that's the case, then you shouldn't use list().

list() assumes a known amount of elements in an array. Using the example you provided, exploding it would only make the array have 3 elements, therefore if the array were to have 4 elements you wouldn't be able to use list() because the amount of elements wouldn't be definite. In which case, you should ditch list().

[nelsok1]

do you have another suggestion besides list that will assign a variable to each directory level knowing that it can be variable in length?

[LemonInflux]

foreach() loop and variable variables? A bit confusing, but it should work

 

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