how to get a part of text from url?

[phprockz]

Hi everyone,
I wonder how to get a part of url for example lets say i have urls like

1) http://example.com/english/songs.php?cid=some
2) http://example.com/english/lyrics.php?cid=some

I need to take only word "songs" from first url and "lyrics" from second url as variable for another operation.Please tell how it can be done.

thanks.

[edited by: coopster at 11:49 am (utc) on Aug. 7, 2006]
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[barns101]

If the variable will always be called "cid", then you simply use $_GET[cid]

[phprockz]

Hmm i dont need value of varibale cid.I need songs keyword from songs.php?cid=some.

[dreamcatcher]

Hi,

If you want to check the occurence of something in a string, you can use the strstr [uk.php.net] function.

if (strstr($url, 'songs'))
{
//do something
}

or use the referer:

if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'songs'))
{
//do something
}

Or are you not sure of the urls and need the value of the page without the .php?

dc

[mooger35]

if you just want the name of the file without the extension or the directories, this will work

$file_loc = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 0, strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'.'));
$pagename = str_replace('/','',strrchr($file_loc,'/'));