How to Quickly Extract Domain Name & it’s components from URL in PHP

In this quick tutorial, I am going to show you How to Quickly Extract Domain Name & it’s components from URL in PHP, In some cases of development you need to extract host name and it’s parameter individually, For parsing domain name you can simply use php parse_url function to extract domain name, It’ll not only return domain but also Parse the whole URL and return its components in associative array format.

See example below

$url =  'http://html-css-designing-tips.blogspot.com/page/?id=1&name=php';
var_dump(parse_url($url));

OutPut:

array(4) { ["scheme"]=> string(4) "http" ["host"]=> string(15) "html-css-designing-tips.blogspot.com" ["path"]=> string(13) "/page/" ["query"]=> string(15) "id=1&name=php" }

Extract Domain Name

$url =  'http://html-css-designing-tips.blogspot.com/page/?id=1&name=php';
$result = parse_url($url);
echo $result['host']; // output: html-css-designing-tips.blogspot.com