What potential pitfalls should be considered when trying to extract the subdirectory from a URL in PHP?

When trying to extract the subdirectory from a URL in PHP, potential pitfalls to consider include handling different URL structures (e.g., with or without trailing slashes), ensuring proper encoding of special characters, and accounting for nested subdirectories. One way to solve this is by using the parse_url function to extract the path component of the URL and then further process it to get the subdirectory. 

$url = "http://www.example.com/subdirectory/page";
$path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
$parts = explode('/', $path);
$subdirectory = $parts[1]; // assuming the subdirectory is the second element in the path array
echo $subdirectory;

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