[SOLVED] select certain part of url

[MDanz]

 

echo 'http://'. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

 

 

this gives me the url currently in my address bar.

 

is there anyway to select a certain part of it.

 

like it returns... www.example.com

 

and i only want 'example'.

 

 

??

 

[Mark Baker]

The parse_url() function allows you to extract the domain from a full url.

Then you can just explode it on the . and extract the element you want from the resultant array

[MDanz]

srry bad example..

 

e.g.

 

http://www.example.com/reply.php?reply=Hello&submit=reply

 

 

i want the 'Hello' part from the url

[thebadbad]

Use a combination of parse_url() and parse_str():

 

$url = 'http://www.example.com/reply.php?reply=Hello&submit=reply';
parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY), $output);
echo $output['reply'];
//Hello

[MDanz]

thx ALOT! it works!

[papaface]

or maybe just

echo $_GET['reply'];

If you're wanting the value of "reply" in the url of the page displayed.

[thebadbad]

or maybe just

echo $_GET['reply'];

If you're wanting the value of "reply" in the url of the page displayed.

 

Ah yes. Overlooked that the OP probably is on the page where the query string is set.