Extract information from the url

moh_796

How do I extract the username from a url. For example http://stores.ebay.com/storename
I need to get the storename from the store url.

bpat1434

You'd want to look at the $SERVER global variable for that type of information. Specifically, $SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is what would give you "/storename" to which you could just remove the slash with a simple [man]str_replace[/man] or [man]substr[/man].

Reserved Variables :: Server

moh_796

I appreciate your help. I am still stuck! Let me give you more details:

I already have the url which is submitted to my server through a form. Because the storename is at the end of the url I feel I should not request it through the form but extract it from the url.

My code looks like this:
echo "<a href=\"$store_url\"><u><b>$store_name</b></u></a>";

where I have the $store_url and trying to get from it the $store_name.

Not sure if I need to use preg_match() but found it complicated to find the matches.

Weedpacket

You could also use [man]parse_url[/man] to ... would you believe it? ... parse the URL.

moh_796

Fantastic! it works, thank you both of you. Here is the code I used:

// Extract username from url
$slash_storename = parse_url($store_url, PHP_URL_PATH);

// Removes slash
$slash = array("/");
$store_name = str_replace($slash, "", "$slash_storename");
echo "storename without slash is: $store_name";

Once again thank you. 🙂