Grab remaining text after last “/” in a php string

Question

So, lets say I have a $somestring thats holds the value \"main/physician/physician_view\".

I want to grab just \"physician_view\". I want it to also wo

Answer 1

Use basename, which was created for this exact purpose.

Answer 2

May be Late...

The Easiest way inbuilt in PHP to grab the last string after last / could be by simply using the pathinfo function.

In fact, you could check this for yourself,

$urlString = 'path/to/my/xximage.png';

$info = pathinfo($urlString);

You could do:

var_dump($info);

this will give you something like:

'dirname' => string 'path/to/my/' 
'basename' => string 'xximage.png'
'extension' => string 'png' (length=3)
'filename' => string 'xximage' 

so to extract the images out of that link you could do:

 $img=$info['basename'];
 $extension=$info['extension'];
 ///etc...

echo $img.".".$extension; //xximage.png

Something small, but can make you Grow_Gray_Hair_Prematurely