Get value from URL after the last /

Question

I have looked around for this but can only find links and references to this been done after an anchor hashtag but I need to get the value of the URL after the last / sign.

I have seen this used like this:

www.somesite.com/archive/some-post-or-article/53272

the last bit 53272 is a reference to an affiliate ID..

Thanks in advance folks.

Answer 1

This will work!

$url = 'www.somesite.com/archive/some-post-or-article/53272';

$pieces = explode("/", $url);

$id = $pieces[count($pieces)]; //or $id = $pieces[count($pieces) - 1];

Answer 2

If you always have the id on the same place, and the actual link looks something like

http://www.somesite.com/archive/article-post-id/74355

$link = "http://www.somesite.com/archive/article-post-id/74355";
$string = explode('article-post-id/', $link);

$string[1]; // This is your id of the article :)

Hope it helped :)

Answer 3

You can do it in one line with explode() and array_pop() :

$url = 'www.somesite.com/archive/some-post-or-article/53272';
echo array_pop(explode('/',$url)); //echoes 53272

Answer 4

$info = parse_url($yourUrl);
$result = '';

if( !empty($info['path']) )
{
  $result = end(explode('/', $info['path']));
}

return $result;

Answer 5

I'm not an expert in PHP, but I would go for using the split function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.split.php

Use it to split a String representation of your URL with the '/' pattern, and it will return you an array of strings. You will be looking for the last element in the array.

Answer 6

PHPs parse_url (which extracts the path from the URL) combined with basename (which returns the last part) will solve this:

var_dump(basename(parse_url('http://www.somesite.com/archive/some-post-or-article/53272',  PHP_URL_PATH)));
string(5) "53272"