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[Justin Hileman]

webmaster at vbplusme.com wrote:
> Hello NYPHP,
>
> I am using preg_replace to try to extract the domain name of one of my
> sites so that I can use it as a variable. It has a standard http
> format, i.e. http://www.mydomain.com and I am trying to get only
> "mydomain" from it.
>
> I have something that works but it does multiple tests before it
> generates the variable I need. I thinking that the multiple lines
> ought to be combined into a single statement that does the job on one
> fell swoop. Am I right in assuming this can be done in one line of
> code?
>
> TIA for any pointers.
>

Use parse_url()

http://us3.php.net/parse_url


Something like this:

$domain = parse_url($my_url, PHP_URL_HOST);


Or, if you want some of the other pieces later:

$chunks = parse_url($my_url);
$domain = $chunks['host'];

// then you can use 'path', 'query', etc. as well.


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justin
http://justinhileman.com