You want to extract the protocol, domain name, path, or other significant component of a URL. Use the parse_url() function to split the URL into constituent parts automatically. The parse_url() function is one of PHP’s most helpful URL manipulation functions.
Ita takes a parameter of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), and splits it into its components. The resulting associative array contains separate keys for the protocol, hostname, port number, remote path, and GET arguments. You can then easily access and use these keys for further processing.
// Define URL
$url = "http://www.yourdomain.com:80/mobile-css/jquery/blog/article.php?id=179&page=5";
// Parse URL into associative array
$data = parse_url($url);
// print URL components foreach ($data as $k=>$v) {
echo "$k: $v \n";
}
Consider the output of the previous script, which illustrates this:
scheme: http host: www.yourdomain.com port: 80 path: /mobile-css/jquery/blog/article.php query: id=179&page=5
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