So here is my problem. The Wordpress PHP function
the_permalink();
gives me this URL: http://www.website.com/author-20/article-title
I basically need his parent URL. How can I get it? ( http://www.website.com/author-20/ )
If the link is always build that way you can cut out the part after the last /
. The way to do that in PHP is with the functions substr
and strrpos
.
$parentUrl = substr($permaLink, 0, strrpos($permaLink, '/'));
substr
cuts out a part of the string, beginning with the second parameter with the length of the third parameter.
strrpos
searches for the last position of a character in a string.
If the link structure represents the post parent structure consider this question from the wordpress stackexchange community.