How extract part of an URL in PHP to remove specific part?

php, regex, url

Solution

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$url = 'http://www.domain.com/something/interesting_part/?somevars&othervars';
$parts = explode('/', $url);
echo $parts[4];

Output:

interesting_part

Problem

So, I have this URL in a string: ``` http://www.domain.com/something/interesting_part/?somevars&othervars ``` in PHP, how I can get rid of all but `interesting_part`?

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