Removing charachers from end of string

Hi all

I have this string:

http://www.whatever.com/testing/index.php

I want to remove whatever is AFTER the last slash. So in the example above it would remove index.php

Thanks in advance!

$url='http://www.whatever.com/testing/index.php';

$trunc_url=substr($url, 0, strrpos($url, '/')+1);


You can perform the substr() and strrpos() calls on two different lines for readability.

Here's what you need to learn this:

strrpos() - http://us3.php.net/strrpos

substr() - http://us.php.net/substr

Basically, find the position of the last / in that string with strrpos(), and then substr() up to that / , and you've got what you need. Play around with it to get it how you need. If you need further assistance, just let us know! :)

Hi all

I have this string:

http://www.whatever.com/testing/index.php

I want to remove whatever is AFTER the last slash. So in the example above it would remove index.php

Thanks in advance!

check your php version if you use this:


$url = "http://www.whatever.com/testing/index.php";
echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);


and read:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

another way:


$url = "http://www.whatever.com/testing/index.php";
$url = preg_replace("/[^\/]*$/","",$url);
echo $url;


both not tested, :)

best regards

$url='http://www.whatever.com/testing/index.php';

$trunc_url=substr($url, 0, strrpos($url, '/')+1);


You can perform the substr() and strrpos() calls on two different lines for readability.

Thanks everyone. This post lead me to the solution. Thanks all!