Re: URL parsing

> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php If you're going to help, at least read the question. The poster already said they tried that and it's not even a solution, anyhow. The "username" it refers to in parse_url() is for URLs in the format of http://username:password@www.domain.com. > >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? Assuming $url is what you have above: $tilde = strpos($url,"~"); $slash = strpos($url,"/",$tilde); $length = $slash - $tilde; $username = substr($url,$tilde,$length); Or you can use a regular expression, but the above is probably faster. preg_match("!(~[^/]*)/!",$url,$match); or preg_match("!(~.*)/!U",$url,$match); In my tests, the first solution (using strpos) was the fastest by 35%. ---John Holmes...