<?php
$url = explode('/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$dir = $url[1] ? $url[1] : 'home';
?>
<body id="<?php echo $dir ?>">
This would turn http://domain.tld/blog/home into "blog" (the second level of the URL structure). If at the root, it will return "home".
Here is an alternate method:
<?php
$page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$page = str_replace("/","",$page);
$page = str_replace(".php","",$page);
$page = str_replace("?s=","",$page);
$page = $page ? $page : 'index'
?>
This would turn http://domain.tld/blog/home into "domaintldbloghome", which is far more specific. It also will remove ".php" file extensions and the default WordPress search parameter.
More Secure Method
function curr_virtdir($echo=true){
$url = explode('/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$dir = $url[1] ? $url[1] : 'home'; // defaults to this if in the root
$dir = htmlentities(trim(strip_tags($dir))); // prevent injection into the DOM through this function
if ($echo) echo $dir;
return echo $dir; // ie. curr_virtdir(false)
}
function get_curr_virtdir(){
curr_virtdir(false);
}
Returns the "middle" directory value:
On http://css-tricks.com it would return "home"
On http://css-tricks.com/snippets it would return "snippets"
On http://css-tricks.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=6 it would return "forums"
The strip_tags() and htmlentities() functions prevent malicious code from being insterted into the URL and ran, e.g.
<body id="foo"><script>alert("Booo");</script>
Usage for IDing the body:
<body id="<?php curr_virtdir(); ?>">
Other usage:
<?php
if ( get_curr_virtdir() == "store" ){
echo "Welcome to our awesome store !";
} elseif ( get_curr_virtdir() == "home" ){
echo "Welcome home :-)";
} else {
echo "Welcome on some other page";
}
?>