PHP REGEX: Get domain from URL

Question

What I want

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I want to get from a URL the domain part so from http://example.com/ -> example.com

Examples:

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+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| input                                        | output                |
+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask   | www.stackoverflow.com |
| http://validator.w3.org/check                | validator.w3.org      |
| http://www.google.com/?q=hello               | www.google.com        |
| http://google.de/?q=hello                    | google.de             |
+----------------------------------------------+-----------------------+

I found some related questions in stackoverflow but none of them was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

There's no need to use a regex for this. PHP has an inbuilt function to do just this. Use parse_url():

$domain = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);

Answer 2

I use:

$domain = parse_url('http://' . str_replace(array('https://', 'http://'), '', $url), PHP_URL_HOST);

Because parse_url doesn't return host key when schema is missing in $url.

Answer 3

$tmp = parse_url($url);
$url = $tmp['host']

Answer 4

This is like the regex from theraccoonbear but with support for HTTPS domains.

if (preg_match('/https?:\/\/([^\/]+)\//i', $target_string, $matches)) {
  $domain = $matches[1];
}