Removing certain text with PHP?

Hi

I want this URL:

php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

to become

php.net

using php ..

I tried with the explode fuction but couldnt get it to work ...

list ($finalurl, $blabla) = explode('/', $url);

PHP:

Anyone have any tips?

Thanks in advance

 

Try it out...
http://ishoot.in/create/new.php
exact code pasted here...

<?php
$url="php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php";
$new=explode('/',$url);
echo $new[0];
?>

Code (markup):

 

<?php

$url = 'php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php';

echo strtok($url, '/');

?>

PHP:

 

To make explode work the way you're using it (returning the data into two variables) you need to add a third parameter to explode limiting the output to only two parts:

     list ($finalurl, $blabla) = explode('/', $url, 2);

PHP:

 

$host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);

PHP:

www.php.net/parse_url

 

That would require http:// before it whereas the OP's example suggests the $url doesn't start with http://

I guess that can be added though:

<?php

$url = 'php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php';

if (!preg_match('~^http://~i')) $url = 'http://'.$url;

echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);

?>

PHP:

 

Thanks guys