How to get the last path in a URL?

Try:

$url = 'http://blabla/blablabla/dut2a/news.php';
$tokens = explode('/', $url);
echo $tokens[sizeof($tokens)-2];

Assuming $tokens has at least 2 elements.

Try this:

function getLastPathSegment($url) {
    $path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); // to get the path from a whole URL
    $pathTrimmed = trim($path, '/'); // normalise with no leading or trailing slash
    $pathTokens = explode('/', $pathTrimmed); // get segments delimited by a slash

    if (substr($path, -1) !== '/') {
        array_pop($pathTokens);
    }
    return end($pathTokens); // get the last segment
}

    echo getLastPathSegment($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

I've also tested it with a few URLs from the comments. I'm going to have to assume that all paths end with a slash, because I can not identify if /bob is a directory or a file. This will assume it is a file unless it has a trailing slash too.

echo getLastPathSegment('http://server.com/bla/wce/news.php'); // wce

echo getLastPathSegment('http://server.com/bla/wce/'); // wce

echo getLastPathSegment('http://server.com/bla/wce'); // bla

it is easy

<?php
 echo basename(dirname($url)); // if your url/path includes a file
 echo basename($url); // if your url/path does not include a file
?>

• basename will return the trailing trailing name component of path
• dirname will return the parent directory's path

http://php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php

Try this:

 $parts = explode('/', 'your_url_here');
 $last = end($parts);

$arr =  explode("/", $uri);

This will keep the part after the last slash.
No worries about explode, when for example no slash is there.

$url = 'http://blabla/blablabla/dut2a/news.php';
$url = preg_replace('~.*/~', '', $url);

Will give

news.php