Extract first URL Segment from full URL

Question

How can the first URL segment be extracted from the full URL? The first URL segment should be cleaned to replace the - with a space .

Full URL

http://www.domain.com/River-Island/River-Island-T-Shirt-with-Triangle-Girl-Print/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2516020

Desired Outpput

River Island

I've tried `str_replace()` to replace the `-` with a space. Unfortunately I cant figure out the regex part to extract the first URL segment. — Nyxynyx, Aug 21 '12 at 19:18

Teneff · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-21T19:46:29.900

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You can use:

$url = 'http://www.domain.com/River-Island/River-Island-T-Shirt-with-Triangle-Girl-Print/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2516020';
$parsed = parse_url($url);
$path = $parsed['path'];
$path_parts = explode('/', $path);
$desired_output = $path_parts[1]; // 1, because the string begins with slash (/)

edited Aug 21 '12 at 19:46

answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:18

Teneff

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+1 for using `parse_url`, though I'd use `parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH)`. – Joseph Silber Aug 21 '12 at 19:19
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I used `$desired_output = $path_parts[1];` and it works perfectly. – Nyxynyx Aug 21 '12 at 19:23
you can also do //explode("/",trim($path, "/")); to remove noise, and use reset to get the first element //$output=reset($path_parts); – Goca May 10 '17 at 18:17

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:19

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$page = explode('/', substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1), 2);
echo str_replace("-"," ", $page[0]);

answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:19

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:18

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Try this: /http:\/\/[^\/]+\/([^\/]+)/i

See here: http://regex101.com/r/lB9jN7

answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:18

Firas Dib

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Slightly modified this to exclude the first segment and get everything else in nginx conf like this `^\/[^\/]+\/(.*)`. This helps to build seo-friendly urls with independent sub-directory controllers. Thumbs up! – Christos Lytras Jul 15 '17 at 22:46

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:19

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$path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$first = substr($path, 0, strpos($path, '/'));

Check the docs for these three functions. Maybe you'll have to strip a slash from the beginning of the path, I'm not sure.

answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:19

Daniel M

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score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 11:52

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have you using CodeIgniter ...???then it could be

$this->uri->segment(segment number of url);

and its need to load uri library in Controller

answered Aug 22 '12 at 11:52

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