This function parses a URL and returns an associative array containing any of the various components of the URL that are present.
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.
The URL to parse. Invalid characters are replaced by _.
On seriously malformed URLs, parse_url() may return FALSE
.
If the component
parameter is omitted, an associative array is returned. At least one element will be present within the array. Potential keys within this array are:
- scheme - e.g. http
- host
- port
- user
- pass
- path
- query - after the question mark ?
- fragment - after the hashmark #
If the component
parameter is specified, parse_url() returns a string (or an integer, in the case of PHP_URL_PORT
) instead of an array. If the requested component doesn't exist within the given URL, NULL
will be returned.
Fixed host recognition when scheme is omitted and a leading component separator is present.
Removed the E_WARNING
that was emitted when URL parsing failed.
Added the component
parameter.
This function doesn't work with relative URLs.
This function is intended specifically for the purpose of parsing URLs and not URIs. However, to comply with PHP's backwards compatibility requirements it makes an exception for the file:// scheme where triple slashes (file:///...) are allowed. For any other scheme this is invalid.
<?php $url = 'http://username:password@hostname:9090/path?arg=value#anchor'; var_dump(parse_url($url)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_SCHEME)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_USER)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PASS)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PORT)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY)); var_dump(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_FRAGMENT)); ?>
The above example will output:
array(8) { ["scheme"]=> string(4) "http" ["host"]=> string(8) "hostname" ["port"]=> int(9090) ["user"]=> string(8) "username" ["pass"]=> string(8) "password" ["path"]=> string(5) "/path" ["query"]=> string(9) "arg=value" ["fragment"]=> string(6) "anchor" } string(4) "http" string(8) "username" string(8) "password" string(8) "hostname" int(9090) string(5) "/path" string(9) "arg=value" string(6) "anchor"
<?php $url = '//www.example.com/path?googleguy=googley'; // Prior to 5.4.7 this would show the path as "//www.example.com/path" var_dump(parse_url($url)); ?>
The above example will output:
array(3) { ["host"]=> string(15) "www.example.com" ["path"]=> string(5) "/path" ["query"]=> string(17) "googleguy=googley" }
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