[snip] I receive posts from an open moderated forum that need to be filtered for urls. I've successfully managed to trap any entires that use 'http://' 'www.' with the standard '.com' '.org', '.net' endings. What I need to do is to strip the prefix part ('http:// or http://www. or 'www') and suffix as well (the .com, etc.) I need only the domain name. I can't seem to trim away the suffix part. [/snip] Have you looked at http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php