Find last character in a string in PHP

Question

I\'m doing some url rewriting in PHP and need to find URLS with a slash at the end and then do a 301 redirect. I thought there\'d be a simple PHP function to find last stri

Answer 1

You can use basename()

This will return characters for http://domainx.com/characters/ as well as http://domainx.com/characters

You can do like this:-

$page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$module = basename($page);

Then you can use the $module directly in your conditional logic without doing any redirects.

If you want to collect the last / trimmed URL then you can do this:-

If you are storing the project base url in a config file:-

BASE_URL  = 'http://example.com'

then you can do this:-

$page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$module = basename($page);
$trimmedUrl = BASE_URL.'/'.$module;