Parse and Explode A Url

[aeboi80]

Lets say I have a URL of http://mydomain.com/somename/

 

I need a function to grab USERNAME

 

However I need it to work if someone uses http://www.mydomain.com/USERNAME/

 

OR

 

With or without the trailing / after USERNAME

 

I can't see to figure anything out which accounts for the many different variables that a person could type it.

 

And yet another way is that the URL could be http://www.mydomain.com/USERNAME/SOME-CAT/SOME-POST/

 

 

Thanks

[MasterACE14]

parse_url()

[aeboi80]

Thank you.  That let me down the right path.  For anyone else who may want to do this here is the code I came up with:

 

 

// Get the username from the URL

function curPageURL() { //this function gets the current page URL
		$pageURL = 'http';
	 if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
		 $pageURL .= "://";
	 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
	 	$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
		 } else {
  			$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
		 }
		 return $pageURL;
}


$urlpath = parse_url(curPageURL(), PHP_URL_PATH); //this separates the pieces of the above URL

$parts = explode("/",$urlpath); // this grabs everything after the domain extension

echo "The Username is: " . $parts[1]; //this grabs the first word after the first / domain path

[requinix]

Or

$username = strtok($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], "/");