parse_url Parse a URL and return its components &reftitle.description; arrayparse_url stringurl 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. &reftitle.parameters; url The URL to parse &reftitle.returnvalues; On seriously malformed URLs, parse_url may return &false; and emit a E_WARNING. Otherwise an associative array is returned, whose components may be (at least one): scheme - e.g. http host port user pass path query - after the question mark ? fragment - after the hashmark # &reftitle.examples; ]]> &example.outputs; http [host] => hostname [user] => username [pass] => password [path] => /path [query] => arg=value [fragment] => anchor ) ]]> &reftitle.notes; This function doesn't work with relative URLs. parse_url 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 tripple slashes (file:///...) are allowed. For any other scheme this is invalid. &reftitle.seealso; pathinfo parse_str dirname basename