Get slug from current url

Question

I have URLs like so:

http://localhost/hi-every-body/
http://s1.localhost/hello-world/
http://s2.localhost/bye-world/

I want the page "slug" from the URLS, eg.

hi-every-body
hello-world
bye-world

What's a simple way of doing this in PHP?

Answer 1

This should do exactly that:

trim(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH), '/');

It takes the path and strips the forward slashes on both sides.

To get only the last part of the path:

basename(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH));