php url to variable question

Hello

I have a question about URLs and variables. Let's say my url is http://pages.com/folder/subfolder/ how can i do so that "Subfolder" becomes a $subfolder variable i can call on my page?

 

You can try this method:

<?php
$url = "http://pages.com/folder/subfolder/";

$url_parts = explode("/",$url);

foreach($url_parts as $url_part){
    $$url_part = $url_part;
}

echo("Subfolder: ".$subfolder);
?>

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Thanks ruben. I forgot to say, "subfolder" can change. so if they for example go to http://pages.com/folder/newspapers/ $subfolder should ofcourse be "newspapers",however if they go to http://pages.com/folder/cars/ $subfolder should then be $cars. how could this be accomplished ? Im using URL rewriting. so all these pages goes to the same php file but gives diffrent information depending on whats at the end of the url. so in short i wannat "get" either "cars" or "newspapers" or whatever is at the end there and trow it into $subfolder.

 

hi,

You can do this with httaccess mod rewrite

RewriteRule /(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?folder=$1&subfolder=$2 [L]

 

and you can give option in php that e.g:

<a href="http://pages.com/$folder/$subfolder">bla bla</a>

 

Yes, the code that I offer you does it. For example if the url is "http://pages.com/folder/newspapers/" the variable $newspapers will be "newspapers" and if the url is "http://pages.com/folder/cars/" the variable $cars will be "cars" and so on. Only change the url and try to access the variable that you need. Like this:

<?php
$url = "http://pages.com/folder/newspapers/";

$url_parts = explode("/",$url);

foreach($url_parts as $url_part){
    $$url_part = $url_part;
}

$url = "http://pages.com/folder/cars/";

$url_parts = explode("/",$url);

foreach($url_parts as $url_part){
    $$url_part = $url_part;
}

echo($newspapers."<br />");
echo($cars);
?>

Code (markup):