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PHP function to get the subdomain of a URL

Im looking for an efficient way to tell if a subdomain exists within a URL.

The domain name will always be fixed e.g. mydomin.com, however if a subdomain is not set, I need to redirect.

One thought I had is that if there is more than one period (.), a subdomain is set, but im not sure how to implement this.

Many thanks.

EDIT: Sorry for not being too clear. I do not have a current solution, but looking at other posts I can see several examples of how to get the subdomain e.g.

array_shift(explode(".",$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']));

But i do not want the subdomain, just to check if one exists. The subdomain could be anything.

Answer 1

You can get the hostname with parse_url. Then you break it down with explode():

function hasSubdomain($url) {
    $parsed = parse_url($url);
    $exploded = explode('.', $parsed["host"]);
    return (count($exploded) > 2);
}

On google you can find really easily how to redirect someone.