string length / replace

I've created myself the lamest project in the world and can't seem to get the results I'd like.

I'm trying to use ereg replace, etc. and can't seem to get an output that looks identical to this:

Can someone please provide a snippet? I'm sure this is just a line or two of code but I can't seem to get it right.

Thanks!

Take a look at [man]parse_url[/man]...