Pulling something out of a filename...

[Dentafrice1]

Say I have this directory... /avatars/

and there is no file in there but my php file which displays that persons avatar...

I need to be able to pull this out of the url:

http://www.sitename.com/avatars/username.gif

I need to pull username out of the url.. using that PHP file.. thats the only thing in the directory.. it takes and pulls the username.. querys the database for that user. And displays it from /images/

Any ideas on how to do that?

[Kymux]

Isnt that just simple variables ?

[Dentafrice1]

Not sure.. but but its not a $_GET i don't think as your not going to bla.php?name=hey your going to /name.gif

[Splinter]

if you just get the filename.. such as me.gif
then use:

$name = basename("me.gif"); 

that should remove the .gif I think..

[RYANNNNN]

well just do something like this then ..
$profile[name].gif

[Kymux]

Yeah that would be good. Set the variable to name and use

$profile[name].gif

[Dentafrice1]

there is no gif file.. I just need to pull the info out of the url

[nets]

there is no gif file.. I just need to pull the info out of the url

So you want a PHP script which obtains a variable containing what's after the forward slash?

[Dentafrice1]

Yes.. I have say

www.site.com/images/Kevin.gif (My avatar)

I need to have my PHP script pull 1 out of this:
http://www.site.com/avatar/1.gif (1 = MY ID)

[YouFail]

Im not 100% sure what you mean. But wouldn't it be

www.sitename.com/?view=/$profile[image]

As the link so that you could get a profile image for that person

The link would then be

<a href=\"/$profile[image]\">Link</a>

Im not 100% sure if this is helpful at all.