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D_tunisia

I have a form which allows a user to enter a URL and then stores that information in a SQL db.

When I get the URL I want to strip the protocol info and the path info. For example, if a user inputs "http://www.google.com/page1/index.php" I want to strip it down to "google.com".

Likewise if a user enters "www.google.com" I would like to strip the www.

Can any one point me in the right direction please?

bradgrafelman

[man]parse_url/man

cheerio

$url = "http://www.google.com/page1/index.php";

//Split the url by /
$urlParts = explode('/',$url);

//The url is now [url]www.google.com[/url]
$url_with_www = $urlParts[2];

//The url is now just google.com :)
$url_without_www = str_ireplace("www.","",$url_with_www);

bradgrafelman

Except, you won't have a "www." in either one since you didn't include that in the test URL :p

cheerio

bradgrafelman wrote:
Except, you won't have a "www." in either one since you didn't include that in the test URL :p

LOL, my bad 😛

D_tunisia

That's great thanks!!

But I do need this to be a bit more flexible. For example, if a user entered "www.google.com/page.htm" then the result would be "page.htm".

Is there a way to extend the code above to do that?

Installer

parse_url()