Extract Base URL From Entire Url

[Brandon_R]

Hello guys i need a bit of help with this. I need a regex to extract the base URL from a long url. Please take a look at the following example:

 

http://www.example.com/1-link-to-the-page.html

 

after the regex is run on the above code $url should contain

 

http://www.example.com/

 

Thank You In Advance for your help

[Alex]

You don't necessarily need regex for this. If the URL is always going to be in that format you could do this:

 

$url = 'http://www.example.com/1-link-to-the-page.html';
echo implode('/', explode('/', $url, -1)) . '/';

[thebadbad]

parse_url() are made for this:

 

$parts = parse_url('http://www.example.com/1-link-to-the-page.html');
$url = $parts['scheme'] . '://' . $parts['host'];