domain regex split

Question

I have some domains I want to split but can\'t figure out the regex...

I have:

• http://www.google.com/tomato
• http://int.google.c

Answer 1

why you trying to use regex ? there's plenty of native functions available for you, such as:

$host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);

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update, give this a go, it may need improving but its better than Regex imo

function determainDomainName($url)
{
    $hostname = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
    $parts = explode(".",$hostname);

    switch(count($parts))
    {
        case 1:
             return $parts[0]; //has to be a .com etc
        break;
        case 2:
            if($parts[1] == "www") //The most common subdomain
            {
                return $parts[2]; //Bypass Subdomain / return next segment
            }

            if($parts[2] == "co") //Possible in_array here for multiples, but first segment of double barrel tld
            {
                return $parts[1]; //Bypass double barrel tld's
            }
        break;
        default:
            //Have a guess
            //I bet the longest word is the domain :)
            usort($parts,"mysort");
            return $parts[0];

            /*
            here we just order the array by the longest word
            so google will always come above the following
            com,co,uk,www,cdn,ww1,ww2 etc
            */
        break;
    }
}

function mysort($a,$b){
    return strlen($b) - strlen($a);
}

Add the following 2 functions to your libraries etc.

Then use like so:

$urls = array(
    'http://www.google.com/tomato',
    'http://int.google.com',
    'http://google.co.uk'
);

foreach($urls as $url)
{
    echo determainDomainName($url) . "\n";
}

They will all echo google

see @ http://codepad.org/pA5KWckb