Get characters after last / in url

Question

I want to get the characters after the last / in an url like http://www.vimeo.com/1234567

How do I do with php?

Answer 1

You can use substr and strrchr:

$url = 'http://www.vimeo.com/1234567';
$str = substr(strrchr($url, '/'), 1);
echo $str;      // Output: 1234567

Answer 2

Here's a beautiful dynamic function I wrote to remove last part of url or path.

/**
 * remove the last directories
 *
 * @param $path the path
 * @param $level number of directories to remove
 *
 * @return string
 */
private function removeLastDir($path, $level)
{
    if(is_int($level) && $level > 0){
        $path = preg_replace('#\/[^/]*$#', '', $path);
        return $this->removeLastDir($path, (int) $level - 1);
    }
    return $path;
}