PHP - URL to array

Question

Suppose I have the URL look like: http://www.example.com/category/product/htc/desire, I used $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to get /category/product/htc/desire, how can I convert this "/category/product/htc/desire" to array like:

array
(
[0] => category
[1] => product
....
)

Thanks

Answer 1

$array = explode('/', trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/'));

• Alec Gorge: This method also has the benefit of removing trailing and preceding slashes.

Answer 2

<?php
$url = "/category/product/htc/desire";
$pieces = explode("/", substr($url,1));
print_r($pieces);
?>

obviously $url would be the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

output, see here: http://codepad.org/lIRZNTBI

Answer 3

use explode function

$list = explode('/', trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/'));

Answer 4

Have a look at PHP strtok function You can do something like that :

$string = "/category/product/htc/desire";
$arr = aray();
$tok = strtok($string, "/");
while ($tok !== false) {
 arr[]= $tok:
 $tok = strtok(" \n\t");
}

• ArtoAle: actually, explode would be a better solution =)