How do I remove http https and slash from user input in php

Question

Here is my example user input

http://edureka.com/
http://edureka.com/topic/
http://edureka.com/topic/cars/
http://edureka.com/topic/questions/

I want a php function to make the output like

edureka.com
edureka.com/topic/
edureka.com/topic/cars/
edureka.com/topic/questions/

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Use:

$url = preg_replace("(^https?://)", "", $url );

This removes either http:// or https://

Hope it helps!!