PHP take arguments from URL path

Question

Say I have a url like this:

http://www.mysite.com/forum/board1/sub-forum/topics/123

Is there a simple way in PHP (can\'t use HTAccess) to take t

Answer 1

explode('/', getenv('REQUEST_URI'));

If your environment happens to include the query string part in the above value, here's a neat workaround:

explode('/', strtok(getenv('REQUEST_URI'), '?'));