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get domain name from URL in php

hi,
I'm trying to write a code that extracts the domain name from a list of URL's. URL's are written in a txt file. following code works for most of the URL's but not with .co.uk etc

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	$lines = file($_FILES['domainUploadFile']['tmp_name']);
	
	foreach ($lines as $line_num => $url) {
		preg_match('@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i',
		$url, $matches);
		$host = $matches[1];
	
		// get last two segments of host name
		preg_match('/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/', $host, $matches);
		echo "domain name is: {$matches[0]}\n"."<br />\n";
	   //echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
	}
}
?>

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this is the input

adnan.com/?att=1&att=2&att3
abc.net
www.giwww.com
http://sites.google.com/
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site

see the output

domain name is: adnan.com
domain name is: abc.net
domain name is: giwww.com
domain name is: google.com
domain name is: co.uk
domain name is: wikipedia.org

hernst42

Or simply use in your loop:
echo str_replace('www.', '', parse_ulr($url, PHP_URL_HOST));

hiddenpearls

ASKER

PHP_URL_HOST doesn't work when url is adnan.com/?att=1&att=2&att3 means without http://

kaufmed

This is an extremely difficult thing to do with regex, as you have already witnessed. URLs can have multiple parts, and TLDs can be anywhere from 2 to 6 (maybe more) characters long and themselves consist of multiple parts.

Is there any way to categorize the URLs into general categories of how the URLs are constructred? For example, given your above example, we could say you have 2 categories:

[server].[domain].[tld]

[server].[domain].[co].[country_code]

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Marco Gasi

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Marco Gasi

Can you give some feedback, please?

Ray Paseur

Looking at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site that you want to turn into this wikipedia.org makes me wonder why you want to discard the "en" part of the name? The subdomain is fairly important, as is banksy in http://www.banksy.co.uk/.

What is the desired output from the examples?