you could use a combination of the string functions (strstr(), substr(), strpos()) or you could work out something with regular expressions.
Tim Ward http://www.chessish.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Mako Shark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: [PHP] URL parsing > I've got a URL like this: > > http://www.naturalist.com/~fungae/index.php > > which is stored in $http_referer (as parse_url from > $HTTP_REFERER). > > I'm trying to extract the username (~fungae). I've > read the docs on parse_url(), and have tried to get > $http_referer[user], but it comes up with zilch. I've > also tried to print_r $http_referer, but I only get > scheme, host, path, and query. Any ideas? > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php