Get second segment from url

Question

How to get the second segment in URL without slashes ? For example I have a URL`s like this

http://foobar/first/second

How to get the valu

Answer 1

To take your example http://domain.com/first/second

$segments = explode('/', trim(parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH), '/'));
$numSegments = count($segments); 
$currentSegment = $segments[$numSegments - 1];

echo 'Current Segment: ' , $currentSegment;

Would result in Current Segment: second

You can change the numSegments -2 to get first