Get current URL and trim with PHP

Question

Im getting the URL using:

$url = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

This returns something like:

http://me.domain.co.uk

How can I select 'me' only?

Answer 1

Use parse_url, get the host of the URL and split it by dots. Then you can retrieve your desired subdomain easily.

Edit: Answered too fast, this is not the real answer to your problem, you could do that this way but i wouldn't do it. If you want the requested subdomain you can use something like that:

$hostParts = explode('.', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
print $hostParts[0];

Note that this example does not include error handling. (i.e.: $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] might be empty)

Answer 2

$uriParts = explode('.',$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);

$subDomain = $uriParts[0];