Extract specific part of a string in PHP

Question

I was simply wondering what would be the simplest and most efficient way of extracting a certain part of a dynamic string in PHP?

Per example, in this string:

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Answer 1

Try this

$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$parsed_url = parse_url($url);
$url_parts = explode('/',$parsed_url['path']);
print_r($url_parts);