function get_domain($url) { $comps = parse_url($url); $domain = ""; if(!$comps) { echo "not valid url: $url\n"; } else { $hostname = $comps['host']; $patt_ip = '/\d+(\.\d+){3}/'; $num_ip = preg_match($patt_ip, $hostname, $out); if ($num_ip) { $domain = $hostname; } else { $patt = '/\.(([a-z0-9A-Z\-]+)(\.(us|com|org|net|info))?(\.cn)?)/'; $num = preg_match($patt, $hostname, $out); if($num) { $domain = $out[1]; } } } return $domain; }