[RESOLVED] Parse URL and ID

tee214

I'm kind of new at php and need to parse a url: http://www.someurl.com/directory/214 and use the last digists as a ID. Finally inserting that ID into a mysql db.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks..

Tee214..:bemused:

m_tt

I think you should look into parse_url(), substr(), and strrchr() :evilgrin:

djjjozsi

hello,
i think you should look into this guide too:

http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite

jjozsi.

bradgrafelman

djjjozsi's suggestion is best; using mod_rewrite, you could tell Apache (are you using Apache, by the way?) to rewrite http://mysite.com/directory/144 into http://mysite.com/directory.php?id=144 -- example:

RewriteRule ^directory/(\d+)/?$ directory.php?id=$1

NogDog

The mod_rewrite suggestions assume that the URL in question is the URL of the script being executed. If that is not the case, but you are instead just parsing a URL from some other source, then [man]basename/man might be the simplest solution.

<?php
$url = 'http://www.someurl.com/directory/214';
$id = basename($url);
echo $id;

tee214

Thank your help..

bradgrafelman

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