Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Programming Discussion : simple php code please

[saghir69]

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php

can someone do a code for me that will strip a url like this

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?whatever into webhostingtalk.com

and

www.subdomain.maindomain.com into maindomain.com

but there might be problems with ,info or . co.uk domains etc

or subdomains

any one know a code to get just the domain and the right extention for a given string

example sub.domain.info

should return domain.info

can someone help?

[Akyriel]

Use the PHP parse_url() function.

This function returns an associative array containing any of the various components of the URL that are present. If one of them is missing, no entry will be created for it. The components are :

scheme - e.g. http
host
port
user
pass
path
query - after the question mark ?
fragment - after the hashmark #

$url = parse_url("http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor");

will return

$url['scheme'] = http
$url['host'] = hostname
$url['user'] = username
$url['pass'] = password
$url['path'] = /path
$url['query'] = arg=value
$url['fragment'] = anchor

[Burhan]

If you are using Apache with mod_rewrite support, then you don't need PHP to do this. You can just setup redirects (or, even use .htaccess).

[saghir69]

Thanks guys

Its working now, I used PHP parse_url()