Re[2]: [PHP] pulling data out of a string

Hello Philip, Monday, May 14, 2001, 3:36:17 PM, you wrote: That my problem www is not always the host when it is a sub-domain it would be like mysit.domain.net or sometimes people put a few extra periods in the domain name like www.my.test.net I thought maybe I could look at the string and find out how many periods are in it then if there is a www before the first period if not treat it like a sub-domain. The last period is is any thing after it would be the tld. How would I count the periods Philip Hallstrom> Is the host always going to be named "www"? If it isn't then how can Philip Hallstrom> you distinguish between www.domain.net and mysit.domain.net where in the Philip Hallstrom> latter what you call the domain is "mysit.domain". There's no way Philip Hallstrom> around that one. However, if you can assume that "www" is always the Philip Hallstrom> name of the host then you could do something like this: Philip Hallstrom> $fullhostname = "www.mysit.domain.net"; Philip Hallstrom> $exp = explode(".", $fullhostname); Philip Hallstrom> if( $exp[0] == "www" ) { Philip Hallstrom> $hostname = array_shift($exp); Philip Hallstrom> }else { Philip Hallstrom> $hostname = ""; Philip Hallstrom> } Philip Hallstrom> $tld = array_pop($exp); Philip Hallstrom> $domain = join(".", $exp); Philip Hallstrom> That should do it... Philip Hallstrom> In article <126166105236.20010514143752@pacifier.com> you write: >> >> I am trying to figure out how to pull data out of a string. This is >> driving me crazy. I figure an if statement of some sort would work but >> I'm not sure how to structure it. >> >>I know how to get what I want if it is just >>$fullhostname = "www.domain.net"; >>$exp = explode(".", $fullhostname); >> >>$host = $exp[0]; >>$domain = $exp[1]; >>$tld = $exp[2]; >> >> >> But what if it looks like this >>$fullhostname = "www.mysit.dom.net"; >>I need >>$host= www >>$domain = mysit.dom >>$tld = net >> >>or this >>$fullhostname = "mysite.domain.net"; >>$host = >>$domain = mysite.domain >>$tld = net >> >>Or even worse this >>$fullhostname = "mysit.dom.net"; >> >>$host = >>$domain = mysit.dom >>$tld = net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>Best regards, >> Richard >>mailto:rkurth@pacifier.com >> >> >>-- >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >>For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >>To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >> -- Best regards, Richard mailto:rkurth@pacifier.com