Topic: [SOLVED] Just cut it short!

[jesirose]

That's just one of the problems with it.
Read the docs dude.
Also, I will repeat: Those functions are for working with FILES. Not the current url of the page a visitor is viewing. Not going to work here.

The OP is obviously off working on the code, and if he needs help he'll post. The requirements he posted were a bit confusing but with some more url examples we can probably get it working.

[teng84]

use echo LOL you cant see anything because you dont print it lol
$path = 'http://blah.website.com/news/index.php';
echo basename($path, ".php"); //gives index

echo realpath($path);//should give news

Use a combination of the following:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
substr();
strpos();
See if you can get anything with that, and if not we can help more.

@josirose is that the code your talking? i guess long and not dyanmic

[phpSensei]

use echo LOL you cant see anything because you dont print it lol
$path = 'http://blah.website.com/news/index.php';
echo basename($path, ".php"); //gives index

echo realpath($path);//should give news

Use a combination of the following:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
substr();
strpos();
See if you can get anything with that, and if not we can help more.

@josirose is that the code your talking? i guess long and not dyanmic

GODDAMNIT STILL NOTHING...

[jesirose]

Did you try your code? You say it "should give news" - DOES it?
No. It doesn't:
http://grady.us/temp/test.php

If you want to fix it go ahead. My code works fine, and is perfectly dynamic. I use it as the base for my framework I use on every site I do.

[teng84]

oops my bad even if my codes run still it wont work I should have read the post clearly
SORRY people I thought its only the path not the URL

ignore my post LOL

[phpSensei]

oops my bad even if my codes run still it wont work I should have read the post clearly
SORRY people I thought its only the path not the URL

ignore my post LOL

its okay....its k...

[TheFilmGod]

I love how I left for like 20 minutes and a whole argument sparked out!! Please mods don't lock this thread, I didn't do nothing!!

LOL! 

jesirose, you were right all the time abut the argument...

Anwaz, I tried $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];and echo the results.

I got the full path except the annoying http://www.website.com thing. This is a good start.

Now how do I use the string functions? I mean I know how to do it if the name was only like index.php but it may be news/extra/hello/blah.php? how do I do that?

Sorry, I'm a newbie, a.k.a a NOOB! 
 

[jesirose]

So you know one part of it you want to remove - anything before and including website.com.
So find the position of website.com - using strpos.
Then make a substring which goes from the end of website.com to the end of the string. Remember strpos gives you the start of the string so you'll need to add the strlen of website.com to the strpos to get the END of website.com

Then we'll go from there.
Can you give more examples of what you're trying to get?
like, 5 example URLs and which part you want. I know you said always the last, but one example you gave was index.php?

[teng84]

Code: [Select]


$x=explode('?',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
echo basename($x[0],'.php').'<br/>';
$x= explode ('/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
echo $x[count($x)-2];
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OK people this is tested and that works  :P :P :P :P[/code]

[TheFilmGod]

I made my own!!

Code: [Select]

<?php
$full = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

$url = ltrim("$full", "/");

$path = substr($url, 0, strpos("$url", "/"));
echo "$path";
?>
Now, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] always gets whatever is after:

website.com...

so I don't have to worry about that, I simply then take the string and trim off the "/" from the left side. I find the offset that tells me when the next "/" is there and then I take the string from the beginning to the offset.

many thanks to jesirose. She is a genius. Thanks to teng84, too. I"m sure your code works too, but I like to use mine. NOt in the mood to steal today! 

[jesirose]

W00t I am a genius.

[teng84]

hep hep horay 
i vote jesirose

[phpSensei]

php brings cheers to people....