preg_match() between www. and .com.

[shortysbest]

I'm pretty new to this, How exactly could i get the text between the www. and .com?

 

so if i have a url:

 

http://www.facebook.com

 

I want to just return  "facebook"

 

[eo92866]

the below code and many more examples that may or may not fit your needs are at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

 

Example #3 Getting the domain name out of a URL
<?php
// get host name from URL
preg_match('@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i',
    "http://www.php.net/index.html", $matches);
$host = $matches[1];

// get last two segments of host name
preg_match('/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/', $host, $matches);
echo "domain name is: {$matches[0]}\n";
?>