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Get Domain Name from URL in PHP Using Regular Expressions

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The following PHP code snippet extracts the domain name from long URL using regular expressions. For example, if you pass the following url, it will output stacktips.com.

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Snippet:

//Custom method to get domain name from url
function get_domain_from_url($url)
{
  $pieces = parse_url($url);
  $domain = isset($pieces['host']) ? $pieces['host'] : '';
  if (preg_match('/(?P<domain>[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\-]{1,63}\.[a-z\.]{2,6})$/i', $domain, $regs)) {
    return $regs['domain'];
  }
  return '';
}

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