Question

How can I transform the following link ( and many other that have the same structure) from

http://www.domain.com/gb/news/12/13311/here-goes-the-name-of-article.htm

and echo it to

http://www.domain.com/gb/news/12/13311/

I will use PHP and $_GET to get the url.

Answer 1

You can use pathinfo

$path = pathinfo("http://www.domain.com/gb/news/12/13311/here-goes-the-name-of-article.htm");
var_dump($path['dirname']);

Output

string 'http://www.domain.com/gb/news/12/13311' (length=38)