Re: Getting domain out of a URL

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 03:35 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > I receive posts from an open moderated forum that need to be filtered > for > urls. I've successfully managed to trap any entires that use > 'http://' > 'www.' > with the standard '.com' '.org', '.net' endings. > > What I need to do is to strip the prefix part ('http:// or > http://www. > or > 'www') and suffix as well (the .com, etc.) I need only the domain name. > I > can't seem to trim away the suffix part. > [/snip] > > Have you looked at > http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php Thanks Jay for the function reference, but it doesn't seem like it's what I'm after since the url is packed into the text. What i really need is something that will take the first part of an array cutting the remainder after a delimiter word '.com'. Something along the lines of: <?php $boom[1] = "ranchy.stuff.com and other junk"; $input = $boom[1]; $out = array_slice($input, 0, 1); ?> Part of my problem, I'm beginning to realize, is that the array '$boom[1]' contains only one element. Is there a similar string function I could use that would accomplish what I need? Tia, Andre