PHP- Getting The Filename From A URL

Mar 27th, 2009
Maruf scribbled this post.

Someone emailed me, asking me how to get the filename from a URL using PHP. It’s pretty easy, but I thought i’d jot it down for everyone, just in case other people want the same result.

Example

Ok, so we want the filename for the following page:

http://www.anydomain.co.uk/page/grab.php

We want to grab the filename, which is grab.php

The following code will do that for you:

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$basename = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

If you want to remove the .php, a simple string replace function will do:

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$basename = str_replace(".php","",basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));

And that’s it.