parse_url

Description

This function returns an associative array returning any of the various components of the URL that are present. This includes the

• scheme - e.g. http

• host

• port

• user

• pass

• path

• query - after the question mark ?

• fragment - after the hashmark #

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.

$ php -r 'print_r( parse_url("http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor"));'
Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => hostname
    [user] => username
    [pass] => password
    [path] => /path
    [query] => arg=value
    [fragment] => anchor
)

$ php -r 'print_r( parse_url("http://invalid_host..name/"));'
Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => invalid_host..name
    [path] => /
)

See also pathinfo().