parse_url

Description

This function parses a URL and returns an associative array containing any of the various components of the URL that are present.

This function is not meant to validate the given URL, it only breaks it up into the above listed parts. Partial URLs are also accepted, parse_url() tries its best to parse them correctly.

Parameters

Return Values

On seriously malformed URLs, parse_url() may return FALSE and emit a E_WARNING. Otherwise an associative array is returned, whose components may be (at least one):

• scheme - e.g. http

• host

• port

• user

• pass

• path

• query - after the question mark ?

• fragment - after the hashmark #

Examples

Example 1. A parse_url() example <?php $url = 'http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor'; print_r(parse_url($url)); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => hostname [user] => username [pass] => password [path] => /path [query] => arg=value [fragment] => anchor )

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