Get characters after last / in url

Question

I want to get the characters after the last / in an url like http://www.vimeo.com/1234567

How do I do with php?

Answer 1

You could explode based on "/", and return the last entry:

print end( explode( "/", "http://www.vimeo.com/1234567" ) );

That's based on blowing the string apart, something that isn't necessary if you know the pattern of the string itself will not soon be changing. You could, alternatively, use a regular expression to locate that value at the end of the string:

$url = "http://www.vimeo.com/1234567";

if ( preg_match( "/\d+$/", $url, $matches ) ) {
    print $matches[0];
}