Get last word from URL after a slash in PHP
I need to get the very last word from an URL. So for example I have the following URL: http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test I need to get with PHP only "test", nothing else. I tried to use something like this: $words = explode(' ', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); $showword = trim($words[count($words) - 1], '/'); echo $showword; It does not work for me. Can you help me please? Thank you so much!! by using regex: preg_match("/[^\/]+$/", "http://www.mydomainname.com/m/groups/view/test", $matches); $last_word = $matches[0]; // test Use basename with parse_url: echo basename(parse_url($_SERVER[