PHP how to strip a url

Question

i want to strip a url with PHP but i can't figure out how to do it. I thought about explode() but the problem is, what parameter can i use? Because i need to have every single piece of the url to use it later on in the script.

I specificaly need this parts splitted:

http:// or https://
www.thewebsite.com/all_the_folowing_parameters

And it also needs to work when www. is missing.

Example:

http://www.thiswebsite.com/thispage.php?this=parameter&thisis_anotherone

Then i thought i could count the characters of the url, but it could also be https, so then my plan failed.

Can anyone give me some advice? It looks that easy, but i just can't figure it out..

there is everything in the `$_SERVER` variable if it is comes from web. — vaso123, Mar 10 '18 at 16:05
u can use explode hope this link will help u [Get full URL in PHP](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6768793/get-the-full-url-in-php) — Hans Stefanus, Mar 10 '18 at 16:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '18 at 16:05

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use parse_url

print_r(parse_url('http://www.thiswebsite.com/thispage.php?this=parameter&thisis_anotherone'));

Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => www.thiswebsite.com [path] => /thispage.php [query] => this=parameter&thisis_anotherone )

answered Mar 10 '18 at 16:05

Clément Baconnier

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '18 at 16:10

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Another, less efficient way

if(substr($url, 0, 5) == "https"){
    $part1 = "https://";
    $part2 = substr($url, 8); }
else {
    $part1 = "http://";
    $part2 = substr($url, 7); }

answered Mar 10 '18 at 16:10

Orry

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PHP how to strip a url

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