look for the string page/
and capture just the part of the url before it with strpos
and substr
:
$url="/players/type/pros/page/3/";
$find = 'page/';
$trimmed_url = substr( $url, 0, strpos($url, $find) );
EDIT – so in the context of your question you could use:
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$find = 'page/';
$pos = strpos($url, $find);
if($pos):
$url = substr($url, 0, $pos);
endif;
if( $url == '/players/type/pros/' ){
//run the query to list the pros
}
But a question I have – why are you using the URL to determine what to load, can you not check $_GET[‘type’] or whatever query vars are being set?