How to retreive the segment url using php?

Using echo to display the segment seems to work, but generates an error with my EE installation. You could do something like this and just use PHP without any EE tags. This will return the last URL segment:

<?php

function returnSegmentName($path) {
 $start   = strrpos($path, '/') + 1;
 $length  = strlen($path);
 $seg     = substr($path, $start, $length);
 return $seg;
}

$path = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$seg  = returnSegmentName($path);

echo $seg;

?>

If your URL is more than three segments, it would need some modification.

Thank you for your help will try

Hi,

You can find segments with EE’s URL class like

$this->EE =& get_instance();
$segment3 = $this->EE->uri->segment(3);