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

parse_url didn't work for me. It only returned the path. Switching to basics using php5.3+:

$url  = str_replace('http://', '', strtolower( $s->website));
if (strpos($url, '/'))  $url = strstr($url, '/', true);