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I haven URL-string like http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/img/clean/logo.png, how can I extract only google.com from the URL? I want to do this on all my URL-strings.
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Try function parse_url()
<?php
$url = 'http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/img/clean/logo.png';
$array = parse_url($url);
echo $array['host'];
<?php
echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
?>