Hi Mako,
if your URL is going to have this format consistently try this
$data = explode("/",$URL);
$user = $data[3];
HTH (untested code)
gamin.
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> 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?
>
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