Regular expression to get the main domain of a URL - php

Question

I have never used regex before and I was wondering how to write a regular expression in PHP that gets the domain of the URL. For example:
http://www.hegnar.no/bors/article488276.ece --> hegnar.no

Answer 1

You dont need to use regexp for this task.
Check PHP's built in function, parse_url
http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Answer 2

Just use parse_url() if you are specifically dealing with URLs.
For example:
$url = "http://www.hegnar.no/bors/article488276.ece";
$url_u_want = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
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EDIT:
To take out the www. infront, use:
$url_u_want = preg_replace("/^www\./", "", $url_u_want);

Answer 3

$page = "http://google.no/page/page_1.html";
preg_match_all("/((?:[a-z][a-z\\.\\d\\-]+)\\.(?:[a-z][a-z\\-]+))(?![\\w\\.])/", $page, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($result);

Answer 4

$host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
$host = array_reverse(explode('.', $host));
$host = $host[1].'.'.$host[0];

Answer 5

See
PHP Regex for extracting subdomains of arbitrary domains
and
Javascript/Regex for finding just the root domain name without sub domains

Answer 6

This is the problem when you use parse_url, the $url with no .com or .net or etc then the result returned is bannedadsense, this mean returning true, the fact bannedadsense is not a domain.
$url = 'http://bannedadsense/isbanned'; // this url will return false in preg_match
//$url = 'http://bannedadsense.com/isbanned'; // this url will return domain in preg_match
$domain = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST));
// return "bannedadsense", meaning this is right domain.
So that we need continue to check more a case with no dot extension (.com, .net, .org, etc)
if(preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,61}[a-zA-Z0-9](?:\.[a-zA-Z]{2,})+$/i",$domain)) {
echo $domain;
}else{
echo "<br>";
echo "false";
}