Get the value of a URL after the last slash

Question

Say I have the following URL values:

http://website.com/tagged/news/
http://website.com/tagged/news
http://www.website.com/tagged/news/
http://www.website.com/tagged/news

I'd like to have a PHP function to get news in this example. So I want the value after the last slash if it isn't blank and if that value is blank, then I'd like to get the value before that slash.

I found this post: Get last word from URL after a slash in PHP

But I'd like to be really sure just in case someone types a slash at the end of the URL.

Answer 1

As easy as:

substr(strrchr(rtrim($url, '/'), '/'), 1)

Answer 2

You can also use basename($url)