Get last word from URL after a slash in PHP

Question

I need to get the very last word from an URL. So for example I have the following URL:

http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test

I need to get with PHP

Answer 1

by using regex:

preg_match("/[^\/]+$/", "http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test", $matches);
$last_word = $matches[0]; // test