How do you strip out the domain name from a URL in php?

Question

Im looking for a method (or function) to strip out the domain.ext part of any URL thats fed into the function. The domain extension can be anything (.com, .co.uk, .nl, .what

Answer 1

Following code will trim protocol, domain and port from absolute URL:

$urlWithoutDomain = preg_replace('#^.+://[^/]+#', '', $url);