I pasted your example in and it doesn't work for me (again, newbie). I will play with it and see if I can get it working. My main goal is to have Ruby-like URL's vs "?var=3425". Is this possible with .php (without mod_rewrite / something in the http server?) Thanks, Ethan On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Ethan Whitt <ethan.j.whitt@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Not sure how to achieve this. How can I grab a portion of a URl to send >> to >> a .php script in this fashion? >> >> www.test.com/article/3435 <- Grab the "3435" to process in a script? > > > take a look at the $_SERVER superglobal array, > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php > > most likely you are looking for, $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'], but it really > depends on what you want out of the url, so make sure to read through the > options, and their explanations. those values are just strings, so its > quite easy to extract portions of the string using a variety of techniques. > for example, give the url in your question (suppose we find it in > $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']) > > $lastPath = substr($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'], > strrpos($_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']), '/') + 1); // $lastPath = '3435' > > -nathan >
