getting name of downloaded file

[Anon]

I have a script that will grap a url from the database, download the html page with wget, and I have script that will parse the page for content. This works, only because I've tested it with a 'known' url, and thus the name of the downloaded file is index.php.

When this goes live, the name of the downloaded file will vary (ie index.html, index.php, pro.asp etc etc). Given that some of the urls will be ...index.php?name=something&file=whatsit, how can I extract the name of the downloaded file for parsing?

[Anon]

You can parse it out using the explode function.

Example:

$test_string="index.php?as=1&bf=2";
$my_array = explode("?",$test_string);

$my_array[0] will contain index.php

$my_array[1] will contain the argument list

Hope this helps

[Anon]

...I was trying to think of a way to do it using explode() but drew a blank because:

the url that I pull out of the database can be anything (http://www.somesite.com/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/index.php) of any length, with any filename.

I could explode with a '/' delimiter, then look for one of the array values that has a period in it, and explode that by '?' and the first value would be the filename I guess.

Does that make sense?