How to get part of your URL?

[Sako]

Hi,

 

I am new to Php. Let's say that my URLs look like:

 

http://www.mywebsite.com/category/COMPUTERS/apple.php

http://www.mywebsite.com/category/COMPUTERS/ibm.php

http://www.mywebsite.com/category/COMPUTERS/dell.php

 

I would like to have a variable defined as 'apple', 'ibm', 'dell'.

 

The code I have below does not work well because these can have different number of characters... any help?

 

$self = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], -8,4);

echo $self;

 

Thanks a lot!

 

[wildteen88]

You could do

$var = pathinfo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PATHINFO_FILENAME);
echo $var;