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

If you already have configured your web server to send those requests to your particular PHP file, you can use parse_url and explode to get and then split the requested URI path into its segments:

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'] = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
$pathSegments = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH']);