Help Parsing URL

I'm still a total noob at PHP and am looking for someone to help me parse a URL using PHP

The URL that I am trying to parse is this

http://www.hotmonkee.com/images/code.php?place=http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/tinapics_album/images/Tagalog/images/whats_up.gif

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What I want is when the user clicks on the the a link they are taken to a URL that looks like this

http://www.hotmonkee.com/images/code.php?place=Tagalog/images/whats_up.gif

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Here is the original version of my code that has the link that takes the user to the above page

foreach($arr as $val) {

$file = ($pb2folder . 'images/' . $val);

$pieces = explode('/',$url2folder);
	$firstPart = "";
	for ($a = 4; $a<(sizeof($pieces)-1);$a++)
	{

		$firstPart .= '/'.$pieces[$a];

	}

	echo '<div class="showImages">' . "\n" . 
	'<img src="' . $url2folder . 'images/' . $val .'" alt="' . $val . '" />' . "\n" .
	'<div align="center">' . "\n" .
	'<br /><div class="js-kit-rating" starColor="Golden" userColor="Golden" view="combo" path="' . $url2folder . 'images/' . $val .'"></div>' . "\n" .

	'</div>' . "\n" . 
	'<BR><a href="'.$urlBase.'/'.$pieces[3].'/code.php?place='.$file.'">Get The Code</a>' . "\n" . 
	'</div>' . "\n\n";

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thanks in advance

 

You should us an .htaccess redirection with a url scheme better than the one you're trying !

 

wow thousands of webmasters and no one knows how to parse a URL?

 

<?php 
$url="http://www.site.com/?q=1&x=2 ";
$url_array = parse_url($url);

echo '<pre>';
print_r ($url_array);
echo '</pre>';

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There are many ways to accomplish what you are asking, here is one. The variable $imgurl will be the /Tagalog/images/whats_up.gif.

	$url = "http://www.hotmonkee.com/images/code.php?place=http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/tinapics_album/images/Tagalog/images/whats_up.gif";
	$findstr = preg_match("/tinapics_album\/images([^(\&|$)]*)/", $url,$matches);
	$imgurl = $matches[1];

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ok thanks peeps i will give that a try