How to get everything after the domain name into a string

Question

My goal is to get everything after the domain name into a string. As in mysite.com/page/page2 would result in a string \"page/page2\". That I can do, however it starts givin

Answer 1

You could use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and then modify the string with PHP's substr() function. So, put the URI into a variable and then run that function to remove the first X number of characters (domain name length) from the beginning and X number of characters from the end (index.php = 9).

For example:

$new_url = substr($uri_variable, 10, -9);

Where $uri_variable is the $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI']`, 10 is the character after the domain name and -9 is the characters in index.php.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

Answer 2

• get the path by parsing the request uri
• remove eventual script name from the end of the string (e.g. index.php)

• rtrim any trailing slashes

  $request = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
  $path = $request["path"];
  $result = rtrim(str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), '', $path), '/');
  

EDIT

$request = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$path = $request["path"];

$result = trim(str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), '', $path), '/');

$result = explode('/', $result);
$max_level = 2;
while ($max_level < count($result)) {
    unset($result[0]);
}
$result = '/'.implode('/', $result);