function to strip a website url

[brown2005]

function url_strip($url){
return preg_replace('#^https?://www.#', '', $url);
}

 

I currently have the above function witch strips say http://www.thiswebsite.co.uk into thiswebsite.co.uk

 

what I want to do is add

 

 

$remove = array('https://www.','http://www.','https://','http://','www.');

 

this into the function, I have tried

 

 

function url_strip($url){

  $remove = array('https://www.','http://www.','https://','http://','www.');

foreach($remove as $key => $val){

$array[$key] = preg_replace(''.$val.'','', $url);

}

return $url;

}

[Christian F.]

If you change preg_replace () to str_replace () your code should work.

Reason why it's not working now, is because the $remove array doesn't contain valid Regular Expressions. Just plain strings.

[JonnoTheDev]

Even simpler

 

<?php
function url_strip($url)
{
$parts = parse_url($url);
return str_replace('www.', '', $parts['host']);
}
echo url_strip('http://www.thiswebsite.co.uk');
?>