Parsing domain from a URL

Question

I need to build a function which parses the domain from a URL.

So, with

http://google.com/dhasjkdas/sadsdds/sdda/sdads.html

or

Answer 1

Combining the answers of worldofjr and Alix Axel into one small function that will handle most use-cases:

function get_url_hostname($url) {

    $parse = parse_url($url);
    return str_ireplace('www.', '', $parse['host']);

}

get_url_hostname('http://www.google.com/example/path/file.html'); // google.com