Extract absolute path from URL

[plexus]

Hi all,

 

I've got the following HTML codes stored in a variable read off from some template tags:

 

<img alt="Image Title" title="Image Title" src="http://www.somedomain.com/photos/category/image_name.jpg" width="480" height="360" />

 

I would like to know how can I use PHP to extract out the absolute path of the src portion and assign it to a variable.

/photos/category/image_name.jpg

 

Thanks

[VHPirie]

Not sure bout this coz im a complete newbie, but there's some sort of function that can check a number of characters from the start of a selected text, and also do the same for the end...and I'm guessing it could remove them also...if u know wat i mean.

 

Just had a look through my php stuff and here's wat I used in a file upload script, basically it checked the last 4 characters of the filename (.php, .exe etc etc).

 

(strcasecmp(substr("$file_name", -4), ".php") == 0)

 

Not sure if this is any help but just thought I would try and contribute

[chigley]

parse_url()

 

echo parse_url("http://www.somedomain.com/photos/category/image_name.jpg", PHP_URL_PATH);