How can I get the current web directory from the URL?

Question

If I have a URL that is http://www.example.com/sites/dir/index.html, I would want to extract the word \"sites\". I know I have to use regular expressions but for some reason my

Answer 1

Use parse_url to get the path from $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and then you could get the path segments with explode:

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'] = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
$segments = explode('/', substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI_PATH'], 1));

echo $segments[1];