seperate string and remove url parameters

Question

I have this code, the part I am looking for is the number from the url 1538066650683084805

I use this example

$tweet_url = 'https://twitter.com/example/status/1538066650683084805'

 $arr = explode("/", $tweet_url);
 $tweetID = end($arr);

Which works however sometimes on phones, When people copy and paste the url it has parameters on the end of it like this;

$tweet_url = 'https://twitter.com/example/status/1538066650683084805?q=2&t=1';

When a URL is exploded with the URL above the code doesn't work, how do I get the number 1538066650683084805 in both uses.

Thanks so much.

• Sammitch: php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url

Answer 1

I would suggest using parse_url to get just the path, then separate that out:

$url = parse_url('https://twitter.com/example/status/1538066650683084805?q=2&t=1');
/*
[
 "scheme" => "https",
 "host" => "twitter.com",
 "path" => "/example/status/1538066650683084805",
 "query" => "q=2&t=1",
 ]
*/
$arr = explode("/", $url['path']);
$tweetID = end($arr);

Answer 2

I would explode first on the question mark and just look at the index 0 .. THEN explode the slash ...

$tweet_url = 'https://twitter.com/example/status/1538066650683084805?q=2&t=1';
$tweet_url = explode('?', $tweet_url)[0];
$arr = explode("/", $tweet_url);
$tweetID = end($arr);

If the question mark does not exist -- It will still return the full URL in $tweet_url = explode('?', $tweet_url)[0]; so it's harmless to have it there.

And this is just me .. But I would write it this way:

$tweet_url = 'https://twitter.com/example/status/1538066650683084805?q=2&t=1';
$tweetID = end(
 explode("/",
 explode('?', $tweet_url)[0]
 ) 
 );
echo $tweetID . "\n\n";