get Folder from the URL and echo it

stef73

Hi everybody,
I'm terribly new to PHP and this is my problem: let's suppose the URL of my page is:
http://www.mysite.com/stef/page.php
What I'd like to do is: get the name of the folder I'm in (stef) and echo it in the page.
Is there a way to do it, maybe using request_uri? I think it shouldn't be too complicated but I have no idea where to start.

thanks in advance!
😉
Stef

Natty_Dreadlock

$REQUEST_URI is the right var. Have a look at www.php.net/parse_url and www.php.net/pathinfo . Using parse_url, u get all the components of the url - especially the path, which u then can process usin pathinfo.
hth
and if u need any further help (code example) feel free to ask

stef73

Thanks Natty Dreadlocks, I read those 2 pages you mentioned (which, BTW I had seen previously, looking for a solution to my problem 🙁 ) but I'd really appreciate a code example that I can use and study.

THANKS!

laserlight

A possible example might be:

<?php
$url_elements = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$path_elements = pathinfo($url_elements['path']);
echo "Dirname: " . $path_elements['dirname'];
?>

stef73

thank you Laserlight, you're great, that's (nearly) exactly what I needed.

The only thing that I'd like to avoid is the slash in front of the result: instead of printing "stef" it prints "/stef" and I'd like to get rid of the /

Anyone have any idea 😕

laserlight

that can easily be done using [man]trim/man or [man]ltrim/man

Natty_Dreadlock

trim wont work since it only removes whitespaces but not slashes. U might use something like this to simply leave out the first char:

$path_elements['dirname'] = substr($path_elements['dirname'], 1, strlen($path_elements['dirname'] - 1);

before u echo the value

stef73

Thank you guys, your help is really appreciated!

ciao!