Get second segment from url

Question

How to get the second segment in URL without slashes ? For example I have a URL`s like this

http://foobar/first/second 

How to get the value where "first" stands ?

Answer 1

Use parse_url to get the path from the URL and then use explode to split it into its segments:

$uri_path = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH); $uri_segments = explode('/', $uri_path);  echo $uri_segments[0]; // for www.example.com/user/account you will get 'user' 

Answer 2

$segments = explode('/', trim(parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH), '/'));