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

Here's my long-winded way of grabbing the last segment, inspired by Gumbo's answer:

// finds the last URL segment  
$urlArray = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
$segments = explode('/', $urlArray);
$numSegments = count($segments); 
$currentSegment = $segments[$numSegments - 1];

You could boil that down into two lines, if you like, but this way makes it pretty obvious what you're up to, even without the comment.

Once you have the $currentSegment, you can echo it out or use it in an if/else or switch statement to do whatever you like based on the value of the final segment.