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PHP Preg_Match array

I want to remove certain characters in a link. i.e.

'http://www.bbc.co.uk', strip everything and just be left with 'bbd'

At the moment i have the following:

$filteredFeed[$item->get_title()] =  array('title' => $item->get_title(), 'permalink' => $item->get_permalink(), 'date' => $item->get_date('G:i d-M-y'), 
    'url' =>$item->get_link());


      } 
endforeach;


foreach ($filteredFeed as $items) {

    echo '<li class="tips"><a href="' . $items['permalink'] . ' "target="_blank"">'; 
    echo  $items['title'];
    echo '</a>';
    echo '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;';
    echo '<span class="date">';
    echo $items['date'];
    echo '</span>';
    echo '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;';
    //echo $date;
    echo '</li>';



'url' =>$item->get_link()); - i get the link here.

How can i strip out the characters?

Solution 
  • $url= 'http://www.bbc.co.uk';
$url = basename($url);
$url = str_replace('www.','',$url);
$url = preg_replace('/\.[^\.].*$/','',$url );

    But this match always first subdomain exept www. TThen you may have interest to keep the basename.