Need help in string manipulation

[kks_krishna]

 

HI,

 

I have the following url :

 

http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/2

 

I want to get only the "article-title-name" from the entire url. How can I do that? some time the url will be  "http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/". it is first page of the article. Please help me.

[enoyhs]

You can try this:

<?php 
$text = "http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/2";
$text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,"/"));
$text = substr($text,strrpos($text,"/")+1);
?>

[kks_krishna]

Thanks, I will try it.

[kks_krishna]

"http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/2" value i have to take from the address bar of the browser. is there any way in PHP to do that?

[GingerRobot]

I would explode by the slashes, and then use the relevant element of the array:

 

<?php
$str = 'http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/2';
$bits = explode('/',$str);
echo $bits[6];//the article name
?>

[MadTechie]

i think he means

<?php
//Get the URI (from the address bar)
$str = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

//+GingerRobot code
$bits = explode('/',$str);
echo $bits[4];//the article name 
//(changed to 4 as REQUEST_URI skips the http://)
?>

[rajivgonsalves]

You can use the following

$str = 'http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/2';
preg_match("#http://[\w\d\.\-]+/[\w\d\.\-]+/\d{4}/\d+/([\w\d\.\-]+)/\d*#",$str,$matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

[MadTechie]

If you was going to use RegEx, this would be simpler!

 

<?php
//Get the URI (from the address bar)
#$str = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$str = 'http://www.sitename.com/articles/2007/10/article-title-name/2';
preg_match_all('%/([^/]*)%i', $str, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$bits = $result[1];

echo $bits[5];

?>