Get two words from URL after a slash in PHP

Question

I need to get two words from an URL. So for example I have the following URL:

http://mydomain.com/alrajhi/invoice/108678645541

I need to get with PHP only \"alra

Answer 1

$string = 'http://mydomain.com/alrajhi/invoice/108678645541';
$parse = parse_url($string);
$explode = explode('/', $parse['path']);

Now you have:

echo $explode[1]; // alrajhi
echo $explode[3]; // 108678645541

Answer 2

Check out 'parse_url' (PHP manual), a function that divides your url into its components and saves that to an array.