[SOLVED] Manipulating a string.

[Lamez]

I am have strings in URL formats, like www.site.com/path how can I take off the /path part, and just have www.site.com?

 

-Thanks!

[DarkWater]

parse_url().

[Lamez]

lol I am using that, but sometimes the url comes out like site.com/path, and when I pull the path out of the array, I get site.com/path. that is why I wanna make a custom function to take off the /path.

[DarkWater]

Just use the ['host'] part of the array that's returned.

[Lamez]

I have tried that, I get nothing.

 

<?php
  //begin checking for blacklisted...
        $n_url = $_SESSION['n_url'];

 	$par = parse_url($n_url);
	//print_r($par);
	 echo $par['path'];
	$b_url = $par['host'];//grab base url
	if($b_url = ""){
	 $b_url = $par['path'];
	}

	echo "Input URL: ".$n_url;
	echo "<br>";
	echo "Base: ".$b_url;
	echo "<br>";
	$www = addwww($b_url);
	echo "Add WWW: ".$www;
	echo "<br>";
	$pro = addPro($b_url);
	echo "Pro: ".$pro;
	echo "<br>";
	$both = addwww($b_url);
	$both = addPro($both);
	echo "Both: ".$both;
	echo "<br>";

        

  //end check, everything cleared...

?>

[DarkWater]

Because you assign $b_url to "" in your messed up if statement.  Try:

 

if ($b_url == "") {
...
}

 

Two = signs.

[Lamez]

well that was a mistake, but I still get site.com/path

[DarkWater]

Give me an example URL that you're trying to parse.

[Lamez]

youtube.com/watch?v=h0JX5jWv-tk

example: http://links.krazypicks.com/?url=youtube.com/watch?v=h0JX5jWv-tk

[DarkWater]

<?php
$url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JX5jWv-tk';
print_r(parse_url($url));
?>

OUTPUT:
Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => www.youtube.com
    [path] => /watch
    [query] => v=h0JX5jWv-tk
)

 

['host'] is clearly correct.

[Lamez]

ugh. I do not have the protocol added. If I add the protocol, then it works like a charm. Otherwise I need to get rid of everything after the slash "/"

[DarkWater]

$str = preg_replace('~/(.+)$~', '', $str);

[Lamez]

Thank you!

 

That worked great!