extract last part of a url

Question

need the last part of the url

http://example.com then the last part is nothing if it is http://example.com/i then last part is i if it is http://example.com/i/am/file.php then last part is file.php

not sure if I use regex or what

Answer 1

This is a simple example:

 <?php
     $url = "http://example.com/i/am/file.php";
     $keys = parse_url($url); // parse the url
     $path = explode("/", $keys['path']); // splitting the path
     $last = end($path); // get the value of the last element 
 ?>

I hope this help you ;)

Answer 2

There is a function called parse_url().