Remove unnecessary slashes from path

Question

$path = '/home/to//my///site';

I am trying to remove unnecessary forward slashes / from the path above

I am trying to get this results

/home/to/my/site

I've failed with str_replace, since i don't know the number of slashes.

Answer 1

if someone wants to remove extra slashes from URL without removing first two slashes after http/https:

$url = preg_replace('/([^:])(\/{2,})/', '$1/', $url); 

(thanks to ツ Liverbool how to remove multiple slashes in URI with 'PREG' or 'HTACCESS')