Hi! This shouid be good: <?php function getdomainname($name) { if(substr($name,0,4)=='www.') $name = substr($name,4,(strlen($name)-4)); return substr($name,0,strrpos($name,".")); } echo getdomainname('www.nyloncoffee.interpc.pl'); ?> short, nice and it's work good :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shahar Tal" <admin@websitefaq.com> Newsgroups: php.db To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: function needed > Hey > > I'm looking and wondering for a function, as i'm trying to do something, and > here it is. > > I'm using the SSI call : > <!--#echo var="HTTP_HOST" -->. > to get the domain name I am on. this will output > > www.domain.com. > > I would like to use PHP in order to take this string, the output, and cut > the "www." and the ".com" from it, so only the "domain" will remain. > ofcourse we can also have situations whith ".org" and ".net" and even where > there's no "www." but the main thing I need is to remove whats > after the second dot and before the first dot, along with the dots. > > I don't mind writing all the posibilities to the function, ie, all the > possible extenstions that the function may need to cut, I just need it to > take > the text from the SSI, and cut everything but the "domain" part, which is > the address itself. > > what would be the best way to do it? > thank you!! > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php