PHP Regex to Remove http:// from string

I have full URLs as strings, but I want to remove the http:// at the beginning of the string to display the URL nicely (ex: www.google.com instead of http://www.google.com)

Can someone help?

Solution 1:

$str = 'http://www.google.com';
$str = preg_replace('#^https?://#', '', $str);
echo $str; // www.google.com

That will work for both http:// and https://

Solution 2:

You don't need regular expression at all. Use str_replace instead.

str_replace('http://', '', $subject);
str_replace('https://', '', $subject);

Combined into a single operation as follows:

str_replace(array('http://','https://'), '', $urlString);

Solution 3:

Better use this:

$url = parse_url($url);  
$url = $url['host'];

echo $url;

Simpler and works for http:// https:// ftp:// and almost all prefixes.

Solution 4:

Why not use parse_url instead?

Solution 5:

To remove http://domain ( or https ) and to get the path:

   $str = preg_replace('#^https?\:\/\/([\w*\.]*)#', '', $str);
   echo $str;