Parsing domain from a URL

Question

I need to build a function which parses the domain from a URL.

So, with

http://google.com/dhasjkdas/sadsdds/sdda/sdads.html

or

Answer 1

You can pass PHP_URL_HOST into parse_url function as second parameter

$url = 'http://google.com/dhasjkdas/sadsdds/sdda/sdads.html';
$host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
print $host; // prints 'google.com'