Getting the domain name out of a URL

<?php
// get host name from URL
preg_match(‘@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i’,
“http://www.php.net/index.html”, $matches);
$host = $matches[1];

// get last two segments of host name
preg_match(‘/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/’, $host, $matches);
echo “domain name is: {$matches[0]}\n”;
?>

domain name is: php.net

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