Extract part of a string in php

Question

Hi, i have this kind of string into my db

http://www.mydomain.com/assets/Image/......./image.jpg

and would like to clean it up and make it

image.jpg

how could get the part of the string starting from the right until the first "/" ?

Answer 1

$url = "http://www.mydomain.com/assets/Image/......./image.jpg";
$filename = basename($url);
echo $filename;

Answer 2

You can use the basename function.

basename('http://www.mydomain.com/assets/Image/......./image.jpg');

Answer 3

 echo preg_replace('~.+/~', '', $url);

see also parse_url, pathinfo