Parse Domain Name

[mkingsle]

Hello Everyone:

I am trying to parse a domain name. It's better if I give an example of what I am trying to accomplish.

Example domain name:

http://www.alabamawidgetsonline.com

What I want to do is:

1.)extract the domain without the

http://www.

and also without the .com
2.)Manipulate the domain name to have spaces between each word...alabama widgets online
3.)Capitalize each word.

Another thing I would like to do is to extract just the state name...Alabama.

Thanks in advance.

[topr8]

are the domains always of a certain format?
using known words, such as the state.

[mkingsle]

yes, they would all be state name widgets online.

I tried doing the following:

<?php

$darray = explode('.', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
$narray = array_reverse($darray);
$domainTitle = $narray[1];
unset($darray, $narray);
ucfirst($domainTitle);
// The word we want to replace
$oldWord = "widgetsonline";
// The new word we want in place of the old one
$newWord = "Widgets Online";
// Run through the text and replaces all occurrences of $oldText
$domainTitle = str_replace($oldWord , $newWord , $domainTitle);

?>

That's as far as I got though.

[penders]

You've pretty much got it! Just a couple of tweaks...

ucfirst($domainTitle);

Should be:

$domainTitle = ucfirst($domainTitle);

Since ucfirst() does work in-place, it just returns the altered value.

$newWord = "Widgets Online";

Add a space:

$newWord = " Widgets Online";

Then echo $domainTitle.

[mkingsle]

That works awesome! Thank you so much. My boss will be really happy.

The last step would be to extract the state name. Is there a way to do that with regular expressions, let's say.

If I know that the rest of the domain is going to remain constant, such as my example above:

(state)widgetsonline.com

Could I use regular expressions to say something like grab text left of widgetsonline?

or is there another, easier solution, adding to the code that works above?

Thanks in advance and thanks to penders for the quick and easy solution.

[penders]

To extract the state name you might as well just add a bit of code to what you already have...

// Run through the text and replaces all occurrences of $oldText 
$domainTitle = str_replace($oldWord , $newWord , $domainTitle);

Insert the one line...

// Run through the text and replaces all occurrences of $oldText
$stateName = str_replace($oldWord, '', $domainTitle);
$domainTitle = str_replace($oldWord, $newWord, $domainTitle);

Correction to my post above...

Since ucfirst() does work in-place, ...

Should read...

Since ucfirst() does not work in-place, ...

!
(Meaning that it does not change the actual value of the variable you pass to it.)

[mkingsle]

That works perfectly. Thank you so much for the help penders.
Hopefully this helps other in future if they need this kind of functionality.