extract part of a path with filename with php

Question

I need to extract a portion of urls using php. The last 6 segments of the url are the part I need. The first part of the url varies in length and number of directories. So if

Answer 1

Use this, substituting $url as you wish:

$url= "https://www.random.vov/part1/part2/part3/2016/08/file.pdf";
preg_match("%/[^/]*?/[^/]*?/[^/]*?/[^/]*?/[^/]*?/[^/]*?$%", $url, $matches);
echo $matches[0];

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