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PHP Explode

I'm a little confused:

I'm trying to extract one part of a url, but am not succeeding.

URL: http://www.MYSITE.com/members/member-name/profile/

	$str = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	$array = explode("/", $str, 3);
	$slug_a = $array[2];
	$slug = str_replace('/', '', $slug_a); 
	echo $slug;

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Right now $slug is echoing "member-nameprofile"
I need it to only echo "member-name"

Thanks in advance.
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The 3 in your explode is limiting the array to only 3 elements, anything over that is just added to the last element of the array since the URI will begin with a slash you have a blank starting element in your array, change it to 4 or just do it the way Ray has.

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Actually limiting it makes no sense in this case! Ray's way is the best way.