Get Last Part of URL PHP

I'm just wondering how I can extract the last part of a URL using PHP.

The example URL is:

http://domain.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903

Now how can I extract the final part using PHP?

9393903

There is always the same number of variables in the URL, and the id is always at the end.

The absolute simplest way to accomplish this, is with basename()

echo basename('http://domain.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903');

Which will print

> 9393903

Of course, if there is a query string at the end it will be included in the returned value, in which case the accepted answer is a better solution.

Split it apart and get the last element:

$end = end(explode('/', $url));
# or:
$end = array_slice(explode('/', $url), -1)[0];

Edit: To support apache-style-canonical URLs, rtrim is handy:

$end = end(explode('/', rtrim($url, '/')));
# or:
$end = array_slice(explode('/', rtrim($url, '/')), -1)[0];

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A different example which might me considered more readable is (Demo):

$path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$pathFragments = explode('/', $path);
$end = end($pathFragments);

This example also takes into account to only work on the path of the URL.

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Yet another edit (years after), canonicalization and easy UTF-8 alternative use included (via PCRE regular expression in PHP):

<?php

use function call_user_func as f;
use UnexpectedValueException as e;

$url = 'http://example.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903';

$result = preg_match('(([^/]*)/*$)', $url, $m)

    ? $m[1]
    : f(function() use ($url) {throw new e("pattern on '$url'");})
    ;

var_dump($result); # string(7) "9393903"

Which is pretty rough but shows how to wrap this this within a preg_match call for finer-grained control via PCRE regular expression pattern. To add some sense to this bare-metal example, it should be wrapped inside a function of its' own (which would also make the aliasing superfluous). Just presented this way for brevity.

You can use preg_match to match the part of the URL that you want.

In this case, since the pattern is easy, we're looking for a forward slash (\/ and we have to escape it since the forward slash denotes the beginning and end of the regular expression pattern), along with one or more digits (\d+) at the very end of the string ($). The parentheses around the \d+ are used for capturing the piece that we want: namely the end. We then assign the ending that we want ($end) to $matches[1] (not $matches[0], since that is the same as $url (ie the entire string)).

$url='http://domain.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903';

if(preg_match("/\/(\d+)$/",$url,$matches))
{
  $end=$matches[1];
}
else
{
  //Your URL didn't match.  This may or may not be a bad thing.
}

Note: You may or may not want to add some more sophistication to this regular expression. For example, if you know that your URL strings will always start with http:// then the regex can become /^http:\/\/.*\/(\d+)$/ (where .* means zero or more characters (that aren't the newline character)).

If you are looking for a robust version that can deal with any form of URLs, this should do nicely:

<?php

$url = "http://foobar.com/foo/bar/1?baz=qux#fragment/foo";
$lastSegment = basename(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH));

$id = strrchr($url,"/");
$id = substr($id,1,strlen($id));

Here is the description of the strrchr function: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strrchr.php

Hope that's useful!

Another option:

$urlarray=explode("/",$url);
$end=$urlarray[count($urlarray)-1];

One of the most elegant solutions was here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1361741/get-characters-after-last-in-url

by DisgruntledGoat

$id = substr($url, strrpos($url, '/') + 1);

> strrpos gets the position of the last occurrence of the slash; substr > returns everything after that position.

One liner: $page_path = end(explode('/', trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/')));

Get URI, trim slashes, convert to array, grab last part

A fail safe solution would be:

Referenced from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2273328/2062851

function getLastPathSegment($url) {
    $path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); // to get the path from a whole URL
    $pathTrimmed = trim($path, '/'); // normalise with no leading or trailing slash
    $pathTokens = explode('/', $pathTrimmed); // get segments delimited by a slash

    if (substr($path, -1) !== '/') {
        array_pop($pathTokens);
    }
    return end($pathTokens); // get the last segment
}

echo getLastPathSegment($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); //9393903

this will do the job easily to get the last part of the required URL

$url="http://domain.com/artist/song/music-videos/song-title/9393903";
$requred_string= substr(strrchr($url, "/"), 1);

this will get you the string after first "/" from the right.

$mylink = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$link_array = explode('/',$mylink);
echo $lastpart = end($link_array);

function getLastPathSegment($url) {
    $arr = explode('/', $url);
    return $arr[count($arr) - 1];
}

1-liner

$end = preg_replace( '%^(.+)/%', '', $url );

// if( ! $end ) no match.

This simply removes everything before the last slash, including it.

One line working answer:

$url = "http://www.yoursite/one/two/three/drink";
echo $end = end((explode('/', $url)));

Output: drink