how to manipulate strings

[marklarah]

Okay, so lets say i want to convert a sting of a link (eg; http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1725102,00.html?cnn=yes ) to just "time.com"

 

A the mo', i use

$to = "http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1725102,00.html?cnn=yes";

$tom = strstr($to,"www");
echo substr($tom, 0, strpos($tom, "/"))

Now, it reruns "www.time.com"

But that may just return "http:" if the url was http://example.example.com or whatever. So how to i get rid of http:// ?

 

 

 

[kenrbnsn]

Use the str_replace() function

<?php
$to = "http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1725102,00.html?cnn=yes";

$tom = strstr($to,"www");
echo str_replace('http://','',substr($tom, 0, strpos($tom, "/")));
?>

 

Ken

[laffin]

$host=parse_url  ( $to  , PHP_URL_HOST );

 

will return the hostname

than ya can use strstr or preg_replace for the removal of www. portion.I wud opt for preg_replace

$host=preg_replace("/^(www|www[0-9])?\.?([\w\.]*)$/i",'\2',$host);

[marklarah]

never mind i used this

 

$to = str_replace('http://','', $to);

$to = str_replace('www.','', $to);

$to = substr($to, 0, strpos($to, "/"));